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The need to speak, even if one has nothing to say, becomes more pressing when one has nothing to say, just as the will to live becomes more urgent when life has lost its meaning.
Jean Baudrillard
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Jean Baudrillard
Age: 77 †
Born: 1929
Born: July 29
Died: 2007
Died: March 6
Anthropologist
Literary Critic
Philosopher
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Ḻāṉ Pōtriyā
Live
Nothing
Need
Pressing
Needs
Urgent
Even
Meaning
Life
Becomes
Speak
Lost
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