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Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you have nothing to say. Most of all, do not hide the fact you have nothing to say nor your total indifference to others. Let this emptiness, this profound indifference shine out spontaneously in your smile.

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
Nothing
Profound
Spontaneously
Smile
Transparent
Show
Shine
Fact
Emptiness
Facts
Indifference
Others
Hide
Shows
Total
Back
Shining
Candid

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