It seemed to me like trying to walk on the Atlantic Ocean to obtain recognition in the literary world.
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God is the Old Repair Man. When we are junk in Nature's storehouse he takes us apart. What is good he lays aside he might use it someday. What has decayed he buries in six feet of sod to nurture the weeds.
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You can only die each morning, And live again in the dreams of night.
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I am tired of work I am tired of building up somebody else's civilization.
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