"Be in love with your life, every detail of it.












How is there laughter, how is there joy, as this world is always burning?

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"So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don't be sorry
"After all this kind of fanfare, and even more, I came to a point where I needed solitude and to just stop the machine of 'thinking' and 'enjoying' wha...
"Love is bitter, death is sweet.
"We lay on our backs, looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when He made life so sad. We made vague plans to meet in Frisco.
"Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life
"I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn't know who I was - I was f...
"A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.
"The little flowers grew everywhere around the rocks, and no one had asked them to grow, or me to grow.
"Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running—that's the way to liv...
"Pain or love or danger makes you real again....
"Why did I allow myself to be bored ever in the past and to compensate for it got high or drunk or rages or all the tricks people have because they wan...
"I feel impossibly sad and like I'll die, what can we do?