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One has never said better how much humanism, normality, quality of life were nothing but the vicissitudes of profitability.

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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Rheims
Ḻāṉ Pōtriyā
Normality
Humanism
Quality
Better
Nothing
Much
Simulacrum
Never
Profitability
Life
Vicissitudes

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