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Quotes About Deception

O era su pertenencia a la UJA la pequeña verdad con que Marco había amasado las mentiras de su primera posguerra —la minúscula poesía épica con que había intentado teñir la prosa general de su vida—, del mismo modo que su estancia en el frente del Segre era la pequeña verdad con que había amasado sus mentiras de la guerra?
~ Javier Cercas
Cosette intuyó que su padre le estaba mintiendo, pero también que le estaba mintiendo con la verdad.
~ Javier Cercas
los buenos mentirosos no sólo trafican con mentiras, sino también con verdades, y las grandes mentiras se fabrican con pequeñas verdades;
~ Javier Cercas
asked. "They lie." "Ah. Frauds.
~ Jayne Ann Krentz
Absolute certainty is the greatest of all illusions.
~ Jayne Ann Krentz
gone wrong. The folks who arranged to kill Quinn and steal the computer didn't get whatever it was they expected to find so they're back in Oriana. And Raine Tallentyre is the only lead we've got. Whatever you do
~ Jayne Ann Krentz
The opening sentence of his latest book could have served as his personal motto: Absolute certainty is the greatest of all illusions.
~ Jayne Ann Krentz
Not fair! Okay, what's the record? How many times? If you can count them, he didn't drop you out. Nadine groaned, shuddered, grinned. 'Bitch.
~ Unknown
Hey, pretty damn smart aren't you? You made it just ugly enough. inconspicuous. Nobody looks twice. I have to admit, that was a hard one for me. I think one of the designers had a breakdown. Cried for an hour
~ Unknown
it is dangerous to unmask images, since they dissimulate the fact that there is nothing behind them).
~ Jean Baudrillard
Hell of simulation, which is no longer one of torture, but of subtle, maleficent, elusive twisting of meaning...
~ Jean Baudrillard
All we have left of liberty is an ad-man's illusion.
~ Jean Baudrillard
The Matrix is surely the kind of film about the matrix that the matrix would have been able to produce.
~ Jean Baudrillard
To dissimulate is to pretend not to have what one has. To simulate is to feign to have what one doesn't have. One implies a presence, the other an absence. But it is more complicated than that because simulating is not pretending
~ Jean Baudrillard
Pretending, or dissimulating, leaves the principle of reality intact: the difference is always clear, it is simply masked, whereas simulation threatens the difference between the true and the false, the real and the imaginary.
~ Jean Baudrillard
When you take away verisimilitude, you do not automatically find the veridical but, perhaps, the implausible.
~ Jean Baudrillard
The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth—it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Ciddi olmamak ve ciddi görünmek gerekiyor. Ya da ciddi gibi görünmeden ciddi olmak. Ciddi gibi görünmekle ciddi olmay? birleÅŸtirenler deÄŸersiz kiÅŸilerdir.
~ Jean Baudrillard
The feminine seduces because it is never where it thinks it is, or where it thinks itself.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Americans believe in facts, but not in facticity. They do not know that facts are factitious, as their name suggests.
~ Jean Baudrillard
From the holocaust to the hologram: a fine programme.
~ Jean Baudrillard
The image of a country of great dreams and universal prosperity, created by all the forces of a gigantic propaganda machine, has become the greatest deception that has poisoned the minds of millions around the world, but above all the Americans themselves. Their consciousness is still in sweet captivity and this captivity turned out to be stronger than the survival instinct.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Paradoks yani bombalar tertemiz nesnelerdir. Sahip olduklar? tek kirletici özellik patlamad?klar? zaman çevreye saçt?klar? bir güvenlik ve denetleme sistemidir.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Gizlemek (dissimuler), sahip olunan ÅŸeye sahip deÄŸilmiÅŸ gibi yapmak; simüle etmek ise sahip olunmayan ÅŸeye sahipmiÅŸ gibi yapmakt?r.
~ Jean Baudrillard