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Men can see nothing around them that is not their own image everything speaks to them of themselves. Their very landscape is alive.

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Karl Marx
Age: 64 †
Born: 1818
Born: May 5
Died: 1883
Died: March 14
Economist
Historian
Journalist
Philosopher
Poet
Politician
Revolutionary
Sociologist
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Karl Heinrich Marx
Marx
Speak
Around
Everything
Nothing
Men
Speaks
Landscape
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Alive

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