What is this statement?
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front
only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it
had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not
lived." (Thoreau, 1854)
Reference
Thoreau, H. (1854). Walden: Life in the woods. Ticknor and Fields.
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