My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state fac…

Henry David Thoreau
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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. ✨ Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). The Heart of Thoreau's Journals, p.65, Courier Corporation
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