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Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.

Slavoj Žižek

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Slavoj Žižek
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: March 21
Cultural Critic
Cultural Studies Scholar
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Opinion Journalist
Philosopher
Politician
Psychoanalyst
Psychologist
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Ljubljana
Slovenia
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