"There's no doubt that I've deserved my enemies, but I don't think I've deserved my friends."
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"Copulation is no more foul to me than death is."
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"storming, enjoying, planning, loving, cautioning, Backing and filling, appearing and disappearing, I tread day and night such roads."
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"Once I passed through a populous city imprinting my brain for future use with its shows, architecture, customs, traditions, Yet now of all that city I remember only a woman I Casually met there who detained me for love of me, Day by day and night by night we were together—all else Has long been forgotten by me, I remember I say only that woman who passionately clung To me, Again we wander, we love, we separate again, Again she holds me by the hand, I must not go, I see her close beside me with silent lips sad and tremulous."
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"O the joy of my spirit - it is uncaged - it darts like lightning!"
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"Something there is more immortal even than the stars."
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"Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams, Now I wash the gum from your eyes, You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life"
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"I act as the tongue of you, ... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened."
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"Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves, As souls only understand souls."
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"My little notebooks were beginnings - they were the ground into which I dropped the seed... I would work in this way when I was out in the crowds, then put the stuff together at home."
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"At times it has been doubtful to me if Emerson really knows or feels what Poetry is at its highest, as in the Bible, for instance, or Homer or Shakspeare. I see he covertly or plainly likes best superb verbal polish, or something old or odd"
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"The Past -- the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf --the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?"
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"I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be complete, The earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who remains jagged and broken."
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"I sing the body that is electric! I celebrate the Self yet to be unveiled!"
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"I will You, in all, Myself, with promise to never desert you, To which I sign my name."
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"And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels."
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"Sure as the most certain sure, plumb in the uprights, well entretied, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical, I and this mystery here we stand."
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"TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved, Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever after-ward resumes its liberty."
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"We consider bibles and religions divine I do not say they are not divine. I say they have all grown out of you, and may grow out of you still. It is not they who give the life, it is you who give the life."
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"Has anyone supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her that it is just as lucky to die, and I know it."
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