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It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
Jean Baudrillard
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Jean Baudrillard
Age: 77 †
Born: 1929
Born: July 29
Died: 2007
Died: March 6
Anthropologist
Literary Critic
Philosopher
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Sociologist
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Rheims
Ḻāṉ Pōtriyā
Always
Liberated
Forced
Identity
Asks
Force
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