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Slavoj Žižek Quotes: I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is not to have been born - but, as the joke goes on, very few people succeed in it.
         

I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is not to have been born - but, as the joke goes on, very few people succeed in it.


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