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“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”
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“The windiest militant trash
Important Persons shout
Is not so crude as our wish:
What mad Nijinsky wrote
About Diaghilev
Is true of the normal heart;
For the error bred in the bone
Of each woman and each man
Craves what it cannot have;
Not universal love
But to be loved alone.”
― Collected Poems
Important Persons shout
Is not so crude as our wish:
What mad Nijinsky wrote
About Diaghilev
Is true of the normal heart;
For the error bred in the bone
Of each woman and each man
Craves what it cannot have;
Not universal love
But to be loved alone.”
― Collected Poems
“What are you going to do? Everything, is my guess. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications.”
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“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
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“You swam in a river of chance and coincidence. You clung to the happiest accidents—the rest you let float by.”
― The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
― The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
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