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Henry David Thoreau1 quote
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. — Henry David Thoreau · 1854Leo Tolstoy1 quote
Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed. — Leo Tolstoy · 1877Rainer Maria Rilke1 quote
Who has not sat nervously before the stage curtain of his heart? — Rainer Maria Rilke · 1923Socrates1 quote
The unexamined life is not worth living. — Socrates · 399 BCSylvia Plath1 quote
I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am. — Sylvia Plath · 1963Thales1 quote
Know thyself. — Thales