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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.


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Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.



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Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.



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The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.



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Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.



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The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.



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