"Here is the desert. In this silence, everything speaks to me: and in your noise, everything falls silent."

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“All these philosophers are no more than surgeons.”

“In such times, if you want neither to lie nor to wound, you are reduced to being silent.”

“Fortunately, when he lacks reason he also lacks words.”

“Stars more beautiful to the eyes than the telescope that robs them of their illusions.”

“The punishment of those who have loved women too much is to love them forever.”

“Of what must be said and what must not be said. The importance of knowing.”

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"At the moment we are back in L. in Houthem St. Gerlach, already a fortnight. I collected already a lot here. We left when it was not yet spring - just to see everything coming out against those beauti…"

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"I looked at my hands, to see if I was de same person now I was free. Dere was such a glory over everything, de sun came like gold trou de trees, and over de fields, and I felt like I was in heaven."

— Harriet Tubman

Social Activism1822–1913

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