Someone asked me what home was and all I could think of were the stars on the tip of your tongue, the flowers sprouting from your mouth, the roots entwined in the gaps between your fingers, the ocean echoing inside of your ribcage.
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As small as a world as large as alone.
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The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.
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To be nobody-but-yourself – in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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Here’s to opening and upward… and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing.
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Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.
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A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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Equality is what does not exist among mortals.
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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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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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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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I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness.
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Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
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The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.
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