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Imagining something is better than remembering something. all art is quite useless. it's kind of fun to do the impossible. clothes make the man. naked people have little or no influence on society. there are some people who read too much: the bibliobibuli. i know some who are constantly drunk on books, as others are drunk on whiskey or religion. they wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing. your daughter has a quick and witty tongue. i am woman, hear me roar! drop the question what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that fate allows you. think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself. we all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough? 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. and if tonight my soul may find her peace / in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, / and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower / then i have been dipped again in god, and new-created. have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? or perhaps you know the silence when you haven't the answer to a question you've been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause in a roomful of people when someone is just about to speak, or, most beautiful of all, the moment after the door closes and you're all alone in the whole house? each one is different, you know, and all very beautiful, if you listen carefully. it isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security. doing. what you'll discover will be wonderful. what you'll discover will be yourself. i pray because i can't help myself. i pray because i'm helpless. i pray because the need flows out of me all the time, waking and sleeping. it doesn't change god, it changes me. religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness. the difference between the possible and the impossible lies in a person's determination. hollywood is a place where they'll pay you 50,000 dollars for a kiss and 50 cents for your soul. the form of government most suitable to the artist is no government at all. how many joys are crushed under foot because people look up at the sky and disregard what is at their feet? in a cruel and imperfect world, she was living proof that god could still create perfection. what is to give light must endure burning. when you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you. the world breaks us all. afterward, some are stronger at the broken places. i am young. i am younger each year at the first snow. when i see it, suddenly, in the air, all little and white and moving; then i am in love again and very young and i believe everything. christ is in the manger and santa in heaven. footfalls echo in the memory / down the passage we did not take / towards the door we never opened / into the rose garden i think of love, and you, and my heart grows full and warm, and my breath stands still. if any individual live too much in relations, so that he becomes a stranger to the resources of his own nature, he falls, after awhile, into a distraction, or imbecility, from which he can only be cured by a time of isolation, which gives the renovating fountains time to rise up..

I have not lived as a woman. i've lived as a man. i've just done what i damn well wanted to and i've made enough money to support myself and i ain't afraid of being alone. 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. you're all i notice in a crowded room..

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water. a warm smile is the universal language of kindness. there exists a passion for comprehension, just as there is a passion for music. that passion is rather common in children, but gets lost in most of us later on. 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. they say that god is everywhere, and yet we always think of him as somewhat of a recluse..
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