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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?

Jean Baudrillard

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Jean Baudrillard
Age: 77 †
Born: 1929
Born: July 29
Died: 2007
Died: March 6
Anthropologist
Literary Critic
Philosopher
Photographer
Professor
Sociologist
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Ḻāṉ Pōtriyā
Afraid
Confession
Shall
Priests
Entrust
Money
Bank
Deposit
Back
Sins
Deposits
Ever
Keeping
Hesitate
Come
Dare
Priest
Take
Sin
Bankers
Never
Safe
Banking

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