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.

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Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

Not I, not anyone else, can travel that road for you, you must travel it for yourself.

Not I, not anyone else, can travel that road for you, you must travel it for yourself.

Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

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    The art of living… is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.

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    An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

    An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

    Every savage can dance.

    Every savage can dance.

    One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

    One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

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