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To be awake is to be completely alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
Henry David Thoreau
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Henry David Thoreau
Age: 44 †
Born: 1817
Born: July 12
Died: 1862
Died: May 6
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I believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn grows.
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Write while the heat is in you.
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This fond reiteration of the oldest expressions of truth by the latest posterity, content with slightly and religiously retouchingthe old material, is the most impressive proof of a common humanity.
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