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Arta Hallaçi

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“History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history.”
― Jean Baudrillard, The Agony of Power

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“A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.”
― Anton Chekhov, Uncle Vanya

tags: friendship, relationships, sex

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“When you take away verisimilitude, you do not automatically find the veridical but, perhaps, the implausible.”
― Jean Baudrillard

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“What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.”
― A.P. Chekhov

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“And so art is everywhere, since artifice is at the very heart of reality. And so art is dead, not only because its critical transcendence is gone, but because reality itself, entirely impregnated by an aesthetic which is inseparable from its own structure, has been confused with its own image. Reality no longer has the time to take on the appearance of reality. It no longer even surpasses fiction: it captures every dream even before it takes on the appearance of a dream.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Simulations (Semiotext

tags: post-modernism, post-structuralism, the-orders-of-simulacra

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