“And how have I lived? Frankly and openly, though crudely. I have not been afraid of life. I have not shrunk from it. I have taken it for what it was at its own valuation. And I have not been ashamed of it. Just as it was, it was mine.”
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American author, journalist, and social activist 1876–1916Related quotes

“I shall be what I have been, shall live as I have lived.”
Sarò qual fui, vivrò com'io son visso.
Canzone 145, st. 4
Il Canzoniere (c. 1351–1353), To Laura in Life

One of These Things First
Song lyrics, Bryter Later (1970)

Quoted in Albert Jay Nock's Memoirs of a Superfluous Man (1943), p. 54.
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My Philosophy (1965) http://www.ronthephilosopher.org/phlspher/page84.htm.