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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. - Henry David Thoreau (Walden; or, Life in the Woods Quotes)

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Source:(Ticknor and Fields, ed. 1954), Chapter II. Where I Lived, and What I Lived For, Page 98
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Henry David Thoreau  (Walden; or, Life in the Woods Quotes)
  • Book: Walden
  • Writer: Henry David Thoreau
  • Genre: Classics, Non-Fiction, Philosophy, Autobiography
  • Published: 1854
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