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“Being is the great explainer.”

Henry David Thoreau · Great

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Henry David Thoreau

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

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Henry David Thoreau

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

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Henry David Thoreau

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

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Henry David Thoreau

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

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