An idea from Self-Reliance and Other Essays

You pack a trunk for Naples to escape your sadness and wake up there beside the same sad self. “My giant goes with me wherever I go.” Copying other people is travel of the mind, and it fails the same way. “Insist on yourself; never imitate.”

From Self-Reliance and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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