Poetry is the human soul entire Squeezed like a lemon or a lime, Drop by drop into atomic words". ― Langston Hughes

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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time. - Simone de Beauvoir

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Take some exercise, try to recover the look of a human being. ― Josef Stalin

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How many years has it taken people to realize that we are all brothers and sisters and human beings in the human race? I mean how many years does it take people to see that? We're all in this rat race together! -Marsha P. Johnson

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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility. - Simone de Beauvoir

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Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick? ― Markus Zusak

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Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.

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Perfect is boring. Human is beautiful. — Tyra Banks

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Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable. - Simone de Beauvoir

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O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?

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