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The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth--it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true.
Jean Baudrillard
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Jean Baudrillard
Age: 77 †
Born: 1929
Born: July 29
Died: 2007
Died: March 6
Anthropologist
Literary Critic
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Rheims
Ḻāṉ Pōtriyā
Truth
Never
Simulacrum
Conceals
None
True
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