I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware I s…

Walt Whitman
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I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content. One world is aware, and by the far the largest to me, and that is myself, And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness, I can wait. ✨ Walt Whitman (2013). Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892, p.31, St. Martin's Press
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