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Article: Taking Leave.(Commonplace Book)
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- American Scholar
- Article date:
- September 22, 2004
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I can scarcely bid you good bye even in a letter. I always made an awkward bow.
--JOHN KEATS, letter to Charles Brown, November 30, 1820
It will not, I trust, be supposed by any reader that I have intended in this so-called autobiography to give a record of my inner life. No man ever did so truly,--and no man ever will. Rousseau probably attempted it, but who doubts but that Rousseau has confessed in much the thoughts and convictions rather than the facts of his life? If the rustle of a woman's petticoat has ever stirred my blood; if a cup of wine has been a joy to me; if I have thought tobacco at midnight in pleasant company to be one of the elements of ...
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