"I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained. They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one of them kneels to another, or to his own kind that lived thousands of years ago. Not one of them is respectable or unhappy, all over the earth."
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Quoting Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself", sect. 32
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