hello thoreau.

"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. 
i did not wish to live what was not life, 
living is so dear; 
nor did i wish to practise resignation, 
unless it was quite necessary. 
i wanted to live deep 
and suck out all the marrow of life."