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Quote by Jean Baudrillard
Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own

Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence. – Jean Baudrillard

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Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors. – Jean Baudrillard

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Courage
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Jean Baudrillard
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Sadder than destitution, sadder than a beggar is the man who eats alone in public. Nothing more contradicts the laws of man or beast, for animals always do each other the honor of sharing or disputing each others food. – Jean Baudrillard

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Food
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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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No language is rude that can boast polite writers. – Aubrey Beardsley

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He swore at us in German (which I should judge to be a singularly effective language for that purpose)… – Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), 1889

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Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers. – George Orwell

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That mans the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

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