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“If the thought enunciates an object as a truth, it is only as a challenge to this object's own self-fulfillment.”

Jean Baudrillard

1990s, Radical Thought (1994)

“The simulacrum is never what hides the truth — it is truth that hides the fact that there is none. The simulacrum is true.”

Jean Baudrillard

Ecclesiastes
1980s, Simulacra and Simulation (1981)

“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: "Whoever fakes an illness can simply stay in bed and make everyone believe he is ill. Whoever simulates an illness produces in himself some of the symptoms" (Littré). Therefore, 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

The Precession of Simulcra, The Divine Irreference Of Images
1980s, Simulacra and Simulation (1981)

“And so one can imagine that in amorous seduction the other is the locus of your secret — the other unknowingly holds that which you will never have the chance to know.”

Jean Baudrillard

Source: 1980s, The Ecstasy of Communication (1987), p. 65