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If you’ve a notion of what man’s heart is, wouldn’t you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth to build a civilization is simply man’s frantic and frightened attempt to hide himself from himself?

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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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Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!
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What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true?
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And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces.
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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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