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E. E. Cummings

E. E. Cummings
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, day and night, to make you everybody but yourself-means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight-and never stop fighting.
We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.