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“If a joyous elephant should break forth into song, his lay would probably be very much like Whitmans famous Song of Myself. It would have just about as much delicacy and deftness and discrimination.”
—Willa Cather (18731947)
“If love closes, the self contracts and hardens: the mind having nothing else to occupy its attention and give it that change and renewal it requires, busies itself more and more with self-feeling, which takes on narrow and disgusting forms, like avarice, arrogance and fatuity.”
—Charles Horton Cooley (18641929)
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