I think it was the institution...I was trying to master it.


E. Lockhart

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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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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
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Here is the deepest secret nobody knows.Here is the root of the root and the bud of the budAnd the s...
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"maggie and millie and molly and may"maggie and millie and molly and maywent down to the beach (to p...
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The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being.
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and it's you whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you.
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I don't know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice o...
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Art is a mystery.A mystery is something immeasurable.In so far as every child and woman and man may ...
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Progress is a comfortable disease.
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Since feeling is first, who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you, w...
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Be of love (a little) more careful than of anything.
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Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink
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We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, wort...
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next to of course god america i / love you land of the pilgrims and so forth oh
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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everyb...
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he sang his didn't he danced his did
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If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little -- somebody who is obses...
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and down went / my Uncle / Sol / and started a worm farm
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