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Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

Margaret Fuller

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Margaret Fuller
Age: 40 †
Born: 1810
Born: May 23
Died: 1850
Died: July 19
Autobiographer
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Essayist
Feminist
Journalist
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
Sarah Margaret Fuller
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