I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness.
E. E. CUMMINGSI’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.
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Somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence; in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near.
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Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.
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The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.
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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.
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Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.
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The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.
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As small as a world as large as alone.
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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Remember one thing only: that it’s you-nobody else-who determines your destiny and decides your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.
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Love is the whole and more than all.
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Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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