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Victoria C. Woodhull: “What is seen is not the reality, but that through which the reality makes itself known.”

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What is seen is not the reality, but that through which the reality makes itself known.
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Victoria C. Woodhull

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Woodhull distinguishes between appearance and the deeper reality behind it.

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