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I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before. Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

If you done it, it ain't bragging.

Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.

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.

The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

When I give I give myself.

Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?

I know a way to end war forever. There has to be one war in which everyone fights.


Can you tell I like Walt Whitman?


Fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity.


[edit 9:18] My journal is back to blah. I'll change the colors and stuff maybe later. Greatest journal wouldn't host the pictures I wanted and it got pissy. So it's just boring and black. For now.

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