Henry David Thoreau

United States
12 Jul 1817 // 6 May 1862
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My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths or mythologic. Facts which the mind perceived, thoughts which the body thought - with these I deal.

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