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    The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
    —Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)

    What can be shown, cannot be said.
    —Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)

    Every sign by itself seems dead. What gives it life?—In use it is alive. Is life breathed into it there?—Or is the use its life?
    —Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)