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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.

E. E. Cummings

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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Bird Choice Dance Learning Myself Sing Stars Teaching
The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.
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Be Yourself Challenge Hard World Yourself
A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
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Exception Man Politics
The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.
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Artist Himself Learning Order
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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Believe Feeling Moments People Thinking Yourself
Suppose Life is an old man carrying flowers on his head.
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Carry Flower Head Life Man Old
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’.
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Health Money Place Poor Rich Sad Sick Travel
A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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Appearance Beautiful Pretty Woman Worth
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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Fight Hard Live Man Try World Yourself
You shall above all things be glad and young.
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Young Yourself
A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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Appearance Beautiful Pretty Woman Worth
Exists no miracle mightier than this: to feel.
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Existence Feeling Magic
And now you are and I am and we’re a mystery which will never happen again.
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Love Myself Mystery Yourself
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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Fight Hard Live Man Try World Yourself
Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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Afraid People Silence
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

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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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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