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Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love.

Emma Goldman

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Emma Goldman
Age: 70 †
Born: 1869
Born: June 27
Died: 1940
Died: May 14
Anarchist
Autobiographer
Feminist
Journalist
Lecturer
Nurse
Peace Activist
Philosopher
Political Activist
Political Philosopher
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Anything
Men
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World
Failed
Millions

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