An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects.
E. E. CUMMINGSMost people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
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I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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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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Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.
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May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living.
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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
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Twice I have lived forever in a smile.
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A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
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The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.
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Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.
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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
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And this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)
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And now you are and I am and we’re a mystery which will never happen again.
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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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