An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects.
E. E. CUMMINGSYou 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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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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You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.
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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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Progress is a comfortable disease.
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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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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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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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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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Laughing is just another way of showing people your wise.
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I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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Here is the deepest secret nobody knows. Here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide. And this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)
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Equality is what does not exist among mortals.
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Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.
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