My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). The Portable Emerson: New Edition, p.120, Penguin
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