Yama

“There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you. Suddenly the TV reveals itself for what it really is; a video of another world, ultimately addressed to no one at all, delivering its own message.”
― Jean Baudrillard, America

“Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times, and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is!”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“If you say: 'I am real, this is real, the world is real', no one laughs. If you say: 'This is a simulacrum, you are no more than a simulacrum, this war is a simulacrum', everyone bursts out laughing.”
― Jean Baudrillard

“Why do you weep? Did you think I was immortal?”
― Louis XIV