E. E. Cummings Quotes on Self
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completely dare be beautiful
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Every artist's strictly illimitable country is himself. An artist who plays that country false has committed suicide;and even a good lawyer cannot kill the dead. But a human being who's true to himself - whoever himself may be - is immortal;and all the atomic bombs of all the antiartists in spacetime will never civilize immortality.
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a million thousand hundred nothings seem -we are himself's own self;his very him
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it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you
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Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel : the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself. To be nobody-but-yourself-in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
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It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.