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Everett Ruess Quotes: I don't think I could ever settle down. I have known too much of the depths of life already, and I would prefer anything to an anticlimax.
         

I don't think I could ever settle down. I have known too much of the depths of life already, and I would prefer anything to an anticlimax.


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