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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire; I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend your life mourning what is lost.

I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.

I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.

I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.

A man’s moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

The past is never dead. It’s not even past.

Perhaps they were right in putting love into books… Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.