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It is more satisfying to sacrifice oneself for the poor victim than to enable the other to overcome their victim status and perhaps become even more succesfull than ourselves
Slavoj Žižek
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Slavoj Žižek
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: March 21
Cultural Critic
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Ljubljana
Slovenia
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