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Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations Quotes: A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.
         

A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.


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A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.
         



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