May 102010
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
e.e. cummings
~ videamus quid sit exilium. nempe loci commutatio.~
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I love this quote.. I remember it being an into to one of his poetry books. I think he uses nobody-but-yourself, as one word with dashes in between I mean, the way cummings liked to do. You can check it here: http://www.mrbauld.com/ee.html
Another nice quote from that essay that makes me giggle:
If mostpeople were to be born twice they’d improbably call it dying-