I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
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Suppose Life is an old man carrying flowers on his head.
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Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
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Because you aren’t afraid to kiss the dirt (and consequently dare to climb the sky)
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A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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As small as a world as large as alone.
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One’s not half two. It’s two are halves of one.
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Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.
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Do not hate or fear the artist in yourselves… Honor and love him do not try to possess him. Trust him as nobly as you trust tomorrow. Only the artist in yourself is more truthful than the night.
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You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
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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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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 first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.
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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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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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And now you are and I am and we’re a mystery which will never happen again.
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As small as a world as large as alone.
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Existing’s tricky:but to live’s a gift.
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Your head is a living forest full of songbirds.
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I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
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Lovers alone wear sunlight.
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Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
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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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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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I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness.
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Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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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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