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Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

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What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true?
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I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.
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I was taking a part of the South to transplant in alien soil, to see if it could grow differently, if it could drink of new and cool rains, bend in strange winds, respond to the warmth of other suns and, perhaps, to bloom
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Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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