The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one sin

The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual — namely to You. – Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1892

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Some things become so completely our own that we forget them. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep. Nay, and when I walk alone in a beautiful Orchard, if my Thoughts are some part of the Time taken up with strange Occurrences, I some part of the Time call them back again to my Walk, or to the Orchard, to the Sweetness of the Solitude, and to my self. – Michel de Montaigne, “Of Experience,” translated from French by Charles Cotton

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