"A poet's work . . . to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep."
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"Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? Wait and hope."
"No matter where life takes me, you'll find me with a smile. Presumed to be happy, always laughing like a child. I never thought life could be this sweet! It's got me cheesing from cheek to cheek!"
"We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people."
"...the only way to judge a philosophy is to examine the lives of those who live it."
"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."
"The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is."
"Beyond the Place of Turning Back ↺ "Sometimes I wish to fly so far sou⇟hit's stars beyond the place of turning back↺"
"What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning."
"Women attribute their success to working hard, luck, and help from other people. Men will attribute that - whatever success they have, that same success - to their own core skills."
"In my imagination, I can feel your presence. I can feel the warmth of your passionate hug. I can hear your sweet voice. I can hear the song of your beating heart."
"Jealous?""Maybe.""No reason. I like my ladies with a pulse."
"Only a female could be as calculating and have the foresight that destiny requires,' the gypsy explained. 'Now fate is a man,' he went on, 'no planning, just go with the flow and see what tomorrow brings."
"Past and Present I know well; each is a friend and sometimes an enemy to me. But it is the quiet, beckoning Future, an absolute stranger, with whom I have fallen madly in love."
"You will find, that when you have someone to love, that the face is less important than the brain, and the body is less important than the heart."
"Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead."
"I may be going nowhere, but what a ride."
"Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure."
"It’s not that we have to quit this life one day, it’s how many things we have to quit all at once: holding hands, hotel rooms, music, the physics of falling leaves, vanilla and jasmine, poppies, smiling, anthills, the color of the sky, coffee and cashmere, literature, sparks and subway trains... If only one could leave this life slowly!"
"Want vs. What's Coming to You As the Rolling Stones say,You can't always get what you want ~but God will always give you what's coming to you."
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