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Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.

E. E. Cummings

Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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Born Deep People Philosophy Thinking
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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Born Freedom Perfection Present Theory Truth
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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Enough Life Sky Time Tree Yourself
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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Fingers Flower Home Ocean Stars Thinking Tongue
As small as a world as large as alone.
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Alone Deep Nature Reality Wonderful World
I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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Choice Friendship Goodness Myself Worth
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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Brave Hell Mistake Nation Patriot
A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
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Exception Man Politics
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
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Advice Care Deep Love Wisdom
An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects.
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Fight Intelligence Lost Person
Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
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Better Fate Kiss Wisdom
Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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Afraid People Silence
To be nobody-but-yourself – in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
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Battle Be Yourself Best Deep Fight Hard Human Love Night Self Stop Wisdom World
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.
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Deep Happiness Life Live Nature Transformation Wisdom Young
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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Beyond Experience Eyes Happiness Myself Silence Touch Travel
Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
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Beautiful Question

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