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If we had the right words, if we had the language, we would need no weapons.

Ingeborg Bachmann

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Ingeborg Bachmann
Age: 47 †
Born: 1926
Born: June 25
Died: 1973
Died: October 17
Essayist
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Ruth Keller
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