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.
E. E. CUMMINGSThe hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.
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The symbol of all art is the Prism. The goal is unrealism. The method is destructive. To break up the white light of objective realism, into the secret glories which it contains.
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Great men burn bridges before they come to them.
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Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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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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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’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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As small as a world as large as alone.
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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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Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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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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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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The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.
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The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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