An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects.
E. E. CUMMINGSI’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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Existing’s tricky:but to live’s a gift.
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I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.
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Do not hate or fear the artist in yourselves… Honor and love him do not try to possess him. Trust him as nobly as you trust tomorrow. Only the artist in yourself is more truthful than the night.
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As small as a world as large as alone.
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Nobody loses all the time.
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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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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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The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying ‘anywhere but here’.
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You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
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May my heart always be open to little birds, who are the secrets of living. Whatever they sing is better than to know. And if men should not hear them – then men are old.
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Laughing is just another way of showing people your wise.
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The artist is not a man who describes, but a man who feels.
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I do not know what it is about you that closes and opens; only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses.
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Love is the whole and more than all.
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