Simulacrum Quotes

Illusion is no longer possible, because the real is no longer possible.

What I am, I don't know. I am the simulacrum of myself.

The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth--it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true.

But what if God himself can be simulated, that is to say can be reduced to signs that constitute faith? Then the whole system becomes weightless, it is no longer anything but a gigantic simulacrum - not unreal, but simulacrum, that is to say never exchanged for the real, but exchanged for itself, in an uninterrupted circuit without reference or circumference.

Literature itself is a species of code. You line up symbols and create a simulacrum of life.