Maybe nothing is completely true, and not even that. - Multatuli

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Maybe nothing is completely true, and not even that.

Multatuli

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About Multatuli

Eduard Douwes Dekker (2 March 1820 – 19 February 1887), better known by his pen name Multatuli (from Latin multa tuli, "I have suffered much"), was a Dutch writer famous for his satirical novel Max Havelaar 1860, which denounced the abuses of colonialism in the Dutch East Indies (today's Indonesia).

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Alternative Names: Eduard Douwes Dekker

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Martin Firrell Maya Angelou Tom Stoppard Michel de Montaigne

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