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Existence is as deep a verity:
Without the dual, where is unity?
And the "I am"" cannot forbear to be; But from its primal nature forced to frame
Mysteries, destinies of various name,
Is forced to give that it has taught to claim.

— Margaret Fuller Life Without and Life Within (1859)

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Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

At Home And Abroad (1856)

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

Ralph Waldo Emerson in Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1884)

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

I am absurdly fearful, and various omens have combined to give me a dark feeling.

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1852)

It was thy kiss, Love, that made me immortal.

Dryad Song (1900)

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