I am being pursued
by a shadow
that was my playmate
in childhood;
it grew up with me,
it will grow old with me,
it will continue
to pursue me
to the grave.
by a shadow
that was my playmate
in childhood;
it grew up with me,
it will grow old with me,
it will continue
to pursue me
to the grave.
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in my mind
there is a hell
that keeps me warm
in the frozen wastes of my loneliness.
there is a hell
that keeps me warm
in the frozen wastes of my loneliness.
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“Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids
― Patti Smith, Just Kids
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“Everything distracted me, but most of all myself.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids
― Patti Smith, Just Kids
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“Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself?”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids
― Patti Smith, Just Kids
“Yet you could feel a vibration in the air, a sense of hastening. It had started with the moon, inaccessible poem that it was. Now men had walked upon it, rubber treads on a pearl of the gods. Perhaps it was an awareness of time passing, the last summer of the decade. Sometimes I just wanted to raise my hands and stop. But stop what? Maybe just growing up.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids
― Patti Smith, Just Kids
“I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids
― Patti Smith, Just Kids
“I thought to myself that he contained a whole universe that I had yet to know.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids
― Patti Smith, Just Kids
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“We wanted, it seemed, what we already had, a lover and a friend to create with, side by side. To be loyal, yet be free.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids
― Patti Smith, Just Kids
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“I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids
― Patti Smith, Just Kids
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“How is it that we never completely comprehend our love for someone until they’re gone?”
― Patti Smith, M Train
― Patti Smith, M Train
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“Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.”
― Patti Smith
https://t.me/Vidusaka/78
― Patti Smith
https://t.me/Vidusaka/78
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“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
― Dr. Seuss
― Dr. Seuss
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“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You'll Go!
― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You'll Go!
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“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
― Dr. Seuss, Happy Birthday to You!
― Dr. Seuss, Happy Birthday to You!
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“A person's a person, no matter how small.”
― Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who!
― Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who!
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“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
― Dr. Seuss, The Lorax
Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
― Dr. Seuss, The Lorax
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