"Unbeing dead isn't being alive."

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"Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own."

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"The earth laughs in flowers."

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"I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more."

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"Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question."

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"A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long."

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"Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination."

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"Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go."

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"I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance."

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