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Quote by Jean Baudrillard
If everything is perfect, language is useless. This is true for an

If everything is perfect, language is useless. This is true for animals. If animals dont speak, its because everythings perfect for them. If one day they start to speak, it will be because the world has lost a certain sort of perfection. – Jean Baudrillard

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We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society of excrescence. The boil is growing out of control, recklessly at cross purposes with itself, its impacts multiplying as the causes disintegrate. – Jean Baudrillard

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light. – Jean Baudrillard

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A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words. – Samuel Butler (1835-1902), Note-Books

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To have another language is to possess a second soul. – Charlemagne

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Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire. – Roland Barthes

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Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all. – Winston Churchill

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