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I was real religious when I was young. I wanted to be a missionary.


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Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.



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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.



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Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line -- you have your own interior world, and it's not neat.



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I imagined myself as Frida to Diego, both muse and maker. I dreamed of meeting an artist to love and support and work with side by side.



Swift is the arrow, dark is the thorn, the slate is clean, the future awaits, awake.

Swift is the arrow, dark is the thorn, the slate is clean, the future awaits, awake.



Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.

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Cut lose your ties with expectation. Your dreams are charlatans, your memories, stalemating quarks. Listen only to the pull of your atoms and follow the discordant hum of your personal entropy.



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Sometimes there's not a better way. Sometimes there's only the hard way.



The Big Bang banged, and for some reason we’re here. And that’s astonishing. And that we can understand that, that’s the most astonishing.

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The public is anold woman.Let her maunderand mumble.




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