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The Courage to Be Yourself: E.E. Cummings on Art, Life, and Being Unafraid to Feel

"To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight."

The Courage to Be Yourself: E.E. Cummings on Art, Life, and Being Unafraid to Feel

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