The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying ‘anywhere but here’.
E. E. CUMMINGSAnd now you are and I am and we’re a mystery which will never happen again.
More E. E. Cummings Quotes
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Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.
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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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Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living.
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Lovers alone wear sunlight.
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Equality is what does not exist among mortals.
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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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Great men burn bridges before they come to them.
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Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
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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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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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For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It’s always our self we find in the sea.
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You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
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Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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I love you much most beautiful darling more than anyone on the earth and I like you better than everything in the sky.
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We can never be born enough.
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May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living.
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Progress is a comfortable disease.
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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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Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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As small as a world as large as alone.
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Love is the whole and more than all.
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You shall above all things be glad and young.
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Because you aren’t afraid to kiss the dirt (and consequently dare to climb the sky)
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