| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 6027 |
| QUOTATION: | To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929), French semiologist. Ironic Strategies, Fatal Strategies (1983, trans. 1990). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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