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.
E. E. CUMMINGSHere’s to opening and upward… and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing.
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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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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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Equality is what does not exist among mortals.
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One’s not half two. It’s two are halves of one.
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Existing’s tricky:but to live’s a gift.
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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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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.
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As small as a world as large as alone.
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Lovers alone wear sunlight.
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May my heart always be open to little birds, who are the secrets of living. Whatever they sing is better than to know. And if men should not hear them – then men are old.
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The symbol of all art is the Prism. The goal is unrealism. The method is destructive. To break up the white light of objective realism, into the secret glories which it contains.
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The voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses.
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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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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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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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