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. CUMMINGSBe of love a little more careful than of anything.
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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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Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.
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Love is the whole and more than all.
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Equality is what does not exist among mortals.
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Well, write poetry, for God’s sake, it’s the only thing that matters.
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You have played, (I think) And broke the toys you were fondest of, And are a little tired now; Tired of things that break, and— Just tired. So am I.
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Great men burn bridges before they come to them.
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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
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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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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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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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Love is the whole and more than all.
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The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.
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An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects.
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