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As a rule, people are afraid of truth. Each truth we discover in nature or social life, destroys the crutches on which we need to lean.

Ernst Toller

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Ernst Toller
Age: 45 †
Born: 1893
Born: December 1
Died: 1939
Died: May 22
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