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"The one thing which we seek with insatiable desire is to forget ourselves, to be surprised out of our propriety, to lose our sempiternal memory and to do something without knowing how or why; in short to draw a new circle. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. The way of life is wonderful; it is by abandonment" (E1 321).

~Emerson as quoted by Susan Howe in "These Flames and Generations of the Heart: Emily Dickinson and the Illogic of Sumptuary Values"