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The only thing worse than being bored is being boring.

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
Worse
Thing
Bores
Bored
Boring

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