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Rumi
"Your earthly lover can be charming and coquettish but never very faithful. The true lover is the one who on your final day opens a thousand doors."
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Rumi
#Doors Quotes
#Faithful Quotes
#Finals Quotes
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“It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.”
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“If you don't have a dream in life, I don't know what you have. You have to want something beyond your reach; it's exciting when it works out.”
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“What is called "apathy" is, I believe, a feeling of helplessness on the part of the ordinary citizen, a feeling of impotence in the face of enormous power. It's not that people are apathetic; they do care about what is going on, but don't know what to do about it, so they do nothing, and appear to be indifferent.”
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“I like BuzzFeed, and I understand the pressure that online reporters are under. But I think everyone agrees that, despite all the awesome kitten gifs, they're still obligated to be skeptical of government officials and ask the right questions.”
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“I certainly was surprised to be named Poet Laureate of this far-out city on the left side of the world, and I gratefully accept, for as I told the Mayor, "How could I refuse?" I'd rather be Poet Laureate of San Francisco than anywhere because this city has always been a poetic center, a frontier for free poetic life, with perhaps more poets and more poetry readers than any city in the world.”
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“Our Business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct.”
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“We're all divided souls, we've got two natures in us, You measure schizophrenia not by the fact that you're divided but how well the divisions speak to one another.”
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“History must stay open, it is all humanity.”