Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
The future is no more uncertain than the present.
Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.
We convince by our presence.
Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
best, God & being good
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.
He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
The real war will never get in the books.
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.
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 may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
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The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.
Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.