“I always thought that
I was me — but no,
I was you
and never knew it.”
Hush Don't Say Anything to God (1999)
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Rumi 148
Iranian poet 1207–1273Related quotes

Recalled in a letter from Joshua Speed in Herndon's Lincoln (1890), p. 527 http://books.google.com/books?id=rywOAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA527&dq=%22plucked+a+thistle+and+planted+a+flower%22
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Book II, Canto VIII, III The Kiss.
The Angel In The House (1854)

“I’m really alive! he thought. I never knew it before, or if I did I don’t remember!”
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