You shall above all things be glad and young For if you’re young, whatever life you wear it will become you; and if you are glad whatever’s living will yourself become.
E. E. CUMMINGSAmerica 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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Lovers alone wear sunlight.
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Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.
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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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The artist is not a man who describes, but a man who feels.
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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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As small as a world as large as alone.
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For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It’s always our self we find in the sea.
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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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The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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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 eyes of my eyes are opened.
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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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You shall above all things be glad and young.
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A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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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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