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There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. – Walt Whitman

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Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth. – Walt Whitman

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Press close bare-bosomed night — press close magnetic nourishing night! Night of south winds! night of the large few stars! Still nodding night! mad naked summer night. – Walt Whitman

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Someone said, “The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.” Precisely, and they are that which we know. – T.S. Eliot

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The chains that bind us most closely are the ones we have broken. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid. – Albert Einstein

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A kind soul knows impoliteness is just preoccupied with distraction. – Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife

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