e. e. cummings quotes

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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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Being
To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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Creation
First
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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Battle
Being
Day
Fight
Fighting
Night
World
The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
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World
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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Laughter
The earth laughs in flowers.
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Earth
Flowers
Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
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Hell
Universe
Nothing recedes like progress.
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Progress
Nothing
Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
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Love
Nothing
Sense
Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
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Wisdom
Fate
Kisses
Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
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Imagination
Knowledge
Word
Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
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Mind
Property