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.
E. E. CUMMINGSTo destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
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An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects.
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You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
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Love is the whole and more than all.
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The voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses.
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The theory of the free press is not that the truth will be presented completely or perfectly in any one instance, but that the truth will emerge from free discussion.
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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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The hardest fight a man has to fight is to live in a world where every single day someone is trying to make you someone you do not want to be–
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you’re a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you’re nobody-but-yourself.
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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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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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A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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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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