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    16 days ago

    “It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion, it is easy in solitude to live after our own, but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

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    A man can be himself only so long as he is doing a hand stand; and if he does not love inversion, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is upside-down that he is really free.
    —Arthur Schopenhauer