Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.
E. E. CUMMINGSAnd now you are and I am and we’re a mystery which will never happen again.
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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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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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Lovers alone wear sunlight.
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.
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Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.
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A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
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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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The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.
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Exists no miracle mightier than this: to feel.
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The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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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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You have played, (I think) And broke the toys you were fondest of, And are a little tired now; Tired of things that break, and— Just tired. So am I.
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Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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