“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”
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whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul
whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul
It is not down on any map; true places never are.
Call me Ishmael.
to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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