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What you have stolen can never be yours.


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Icelanders are grateful to meet foreigners who have heard of their country. And even more grateful to hear someone say it deserves better.

Icelanders are grateful to meet foreigners who have heard of their country. And even more grateful to hear someone say it deserves better.



For man is essentially alone, and one should pity him and love him and grieve with him.

For man is essentially alone, and one should pity him and love him and grieve with him.



Whoever doesn't live in poetry cannot survive here on earth.

Whoever doesn't live in poetry cannot survive here on earth.



My motto is strong packaging, clear addressing.

My motto is strong packaging, clear addressing.



Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.

Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.



It's a useful habit to never believe more than half of what people tell you, and not to concern yourself with the rest. Rather keep your mind free and your path your own.

It's a useful habit to never believe more than half of what people tell you, and not to concern yourself with the rest. Rather keep your mind free and your path your own.



It's a pity we don't whistle at one another, like birds. Words are misleading.

It's a pity we don't whistle at one another, like birds. Words are misleading.



When a man has a flower in his life he builds a house.

When a man has a flower in his life he builds a house.



Like all great rationalists you believed in things that were twice as incredible as theology.

Like all great rationalists you believed in things that were twice as incredible as theology.



You have fettered yourself of your own free will, man - break the fetters!

You have fettered yourself of your own free will, man - break the fetters!





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If you don’t give yourself permission to create a new world, chances are nobody else will.



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Never let anyone or anything distract you from noticing how amazing you are.



It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.



Somewhere along the line common sense should prevail,.

Somewhere along the line common sense should prevail,.



Im not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, Im rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.

Im not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, Im rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.



The first stop on this crazy train is Kindergarten Junction, and nobody gets off until it pulls into Harvard Station.

The first stop on this crazy train is Kindergarten Junction, and nobody gets off until it pulls into Harvard Station.



Everyone has to scratch on walls somewhere or they go crazy

Everyone has to scratch on walls somewhere or they go crazy



I think there's so much feeling among young girls where they feel like they have to be this perfect thing - and they don't. Perfect people don't exist. Sometimes people need to be told it.

I think there's so much feeling among young girls where they feel like they have to be this perfect thing - and they don't. Perfect people don't exist. Sometimes people need to be told it.



I'm a reflection of the community.

I'm a reflection of the community.



I'll follow thee and make a heaven of hell, To die upon the hand I love so well

I'll follow thee and make a heaven of hell, To die upon the hand I love so well




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