“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.”
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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.
Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.