The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single …

Walt Whitman
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The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual. ✨ Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856, p.206, NYU Press
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The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual. ✨ Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856, p.206, NYU Press

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