[i]We were fighting so very hard and achieving so very little aside from staying alive. BUT THAT’S EVERYTHING, my father wrote to me, when I told him that in a letter.[/i]
The truth is what you live through while you're looking for the truth.
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Marty Rubin
Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Don't sign your namebetween worlds, surmountthe manifold of meanings, trust the tearstain, learn to live.
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Paul Celan
To breathe is to live, but to write unimpeded is to breathe eternal.
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M. Clifford
The life of my people is to remember forever; each head granary is full. The life of your people is to forget: your thing granaries ("museums"), and not yourselves, are full.
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Alice Walker
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