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.
E. E. CUMMINGSUnbeing dead isn’t being alive.
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Existing’s tricky:but to live’s a gift.
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Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
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You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
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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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As small as a world as large as alone.
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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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The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.
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Time is a tree (this life one leaf) but love is the sky and i am for you just so long and long enough.
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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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Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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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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Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.
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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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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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