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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

— E. E. Cummings

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The sensical law of this world is might makes right; the nonsensical law of our heroine is love conquers all.

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What concerns me fundamentaly is a meteoric burlesk melodrama, born of the immemorial adage love will find a way.

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Every artist's strictly illimitable country is himself.

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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

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Very luckily for you and me,the uncivilized sun mysteriously shines on "good" and "bad" alike. He is an artist.

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