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"Camerado, I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself?"

"The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual."

"O lands! O all so dear to me - what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is."

"The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves."

"Be curious, not judgmental."

"Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all."

"Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?"

"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."

"To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all."

"I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers."

"I dote on myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious."

"And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud."

"I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones."

"The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book."

"I celebrate myself, and what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease... observing a spear of summer grass."

"I celebrate myself, and sing myself."

"If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred."

"Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely."

"There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance."

"To have great poets, there must be great audiences too."

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