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"Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires."
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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"Anything that ends is a dream. This whole universe is a dream."

"Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!"

"There is so much hope in a little flower and so many flowers in a little hope!"

"For those who wander in the depths, there is nothing deep!"

"Don't get stuck in one candle; find other candles, create other candles!"

"And there wasn't anything he wanted to do that he couldn't make time for. What did he have to mope about, really? What more did he want? Love, he could hear Eve saying. Purpose. Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can't plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don't happen? Do you spend your whole life pining for them? Waiting to be happy?"

"I've diagnosed myself and discovered I have a limited 'life span' you can do this to. Then live life to its fullest in everything you do!"

"We're allowed to have had a private life before politics in which we make mistakes and do things we should not."
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"I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice."


"If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger."


"A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them. There is no such thing as bad art."


"In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty."
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