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. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)

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.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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