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.
E. E. CUMMINGSTo 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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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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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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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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And now you are and I am and we’re a mystery which will never happen again.
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Twice I have lived forever in a smile.
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Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
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Sweet springtime is my time is your time is our time for springtime is love time and viva sweet love.
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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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I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
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As small as a world as large as alone.
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The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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Existing’s tricky:but to live’s a gift.
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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.
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A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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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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