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I think night-time is dark so you can imagine with less distraction. art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. our collective will to resist what is unjust is like a fire that cannot be put out. do not follow where the path may lead. go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. i always give myself such very good advice, but i very seldom follow it. it's hard to stay mad when there's so much beauty in the world. sometimes i feel like i'm seeing it all at once and it's too much. my heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst, and then i remember to relax and stop trying to hold on to it and it flows through me like rain and i can feel nothing but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid, little life. you have no idea what i'm talking about, i'm sure, but don't worry. you will someday. i sincerely hope a new generation will stand up that says: let's develop our brains and not just our bodies. girls that will say to a christina aguilera: you think you're a strong woman because you show your red thong? get a grip and put on some clothes. talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience. hell has no fury like women's fury. in our struggle for freedom, truth is the only weapon we possess. you set up your place in my thoughts / moved in and made my thinking crowded. the greatest complexity is the greatest simplicity. the more "complex" a system is, the more simple is its design. indeed, it is utterly elegant in its simplicity. the master understands this. that is why a highly evolved being lives in utter simplicity. be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are. when you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. no man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions. besides, i didn't have anything to fear anymore. maybe all post-suicidals feel that way. it's really great - it gives you a real sense of, not bravery exactly, and not recklessness, quite, but something in between the two. if i'd survived my own best attempts at dying, it probably just wasn't in the cards for me to perish young. returning, i had to cross before the looking-glass; my fascinated glance involuntarily explored the depth it revealed. all looked colder and darker in that visionary hollow than in reality; and the strange little figure there gazing at me, with a white face and arms specking the gloom, and glittering eyes of fear moving where all else was still, had the effect of a real spirit: i thought it like one of the tiny phantoms, half fairy, half imp, bessie's evening stories represented as coming out of lone, ferny dells in moors, and appearing before the eyes of travelers. one of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. the soul is an emanation of the divinity, a part of the soul of the world, a ray from the source of light. it comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, it goes out of it anew; it wanders in ethereal regions, it returns to visit.... it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal. all humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. i say to mankind, be not curious about god. for i, who am curious about each, am not curious about god - i hear and behold god in every object, yet understand god not in the least. if you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want and all that is left is a compromise. listening four or five times a day to newscasters and commentators, reading the morning papers and all the weeklies and monthlies - nowadays this is described as 'taking an interest in politics'. st. john of the cross would have called it indulgence in idle curiosity and the cultivation of disquietude for disquietude's sake. little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above it. but you will,' the queen said, 'if you don't make a memorandum of it.'</p> a wizard is never late. nor is he early. he arrives precisely when he means to. i took us for better and i took us for worse / don't you ever forget it / now the steel bars between me and a promise / suddenly bend with ease / the closer i'm bound in love to you / the closer i am to free ...love is not love / which alters when it alteration finds, / or bends with the remover to remove: / o no! it is an ever-fixed mark / that looks on tempests and is never shaken... we are each of us angels with only one wing. and we can only fly embracing each other. hope is a dangerous thing. drive a man insane..

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. the moment of change is the only poem. the longer i live the more i become convinced that the only thing that matters in literature is the writer is first of all an enchanter. an illiterate underbred book . . . the book of a self-taught working man . . . egotistic, insistent, raw, striking, and ultimately nauseating. we are wise, wise women. we are giggling girls. never joke about a woman's hair, clothes or menstrual cycle. page one. a single sun shines here and in the land where i was born, though we call it by different names. in the realm of idea, the great principles behind the forms that we see are the same. history is particularly important in throwing light on the source of our attitudes about sex because many of the assumptions we make are not necessarily scientific or rational but holdovers of past belief systems that are no longer held by modern society. true religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness. the sun is always shining. even though clouds may come along and obscure the sun for awhile, the sun is always shining. the sun never stops shining. and even though the earth turns, and the sun appears to go down, it never stops shining. ordinary people believe only in the possible. extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. and by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible. never judge a book by its movie. surely a king who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory. the universe is made of stories, not atoms. the fact is, i was a trifle beside myself; or rather out of myself, as the french would say: i was conscious that at moment's mutiny had already rendered me liable to strange penalties and, like any other rebel slave, i felt resolved, in my desperation, to go to all lengths. you're all i notice in a crowded room..

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. it took me too long to realize / that i don't take good pictures / 'cause i have the kind of beauty / that moves one thing i've learned all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that. even for me life had its gleams of sunshine. perfection is achieved not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. art thou pale for weariness / of climbing heaven and gazing on earth / wandering companionless... life is a struggle, but there's hope and beauty in the world. even though a lot of our songs are dark, there's oftentimes the strain of 'but we're powerful as individuals and we're loved and we're good and the things we struggle with are the things that teach us the most and help us to grow.' in the end, that's what matters..
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