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SALUT, NETIZENS. YOU ARE NOW LOOKING AT A YOUNG GIRL'S PERSONAL DOCUMENTATION OF THE THINGS SHE FINDS ENLIGHTENING. THESE ARE THE ARTICULATION OF THE THOUGHTS, FEELINGS, AND IDEAS OF HERS, THEIRS, AND OURS. THIS IS A SYMPOSIUM OF THE MINDS OF THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE. INSTEAD OF KEEPING HER ENLIGHTENING ENCOUNTERS TO HERSELF, SHE HAS DECIDED TO SHARE TO THE WORLD THE BEAUTY OF WORDS AND LANGUAGE IN HER POINT OF VIEW. BEFORE YOU SCROLL DOWN THIS PAGE AND START YOUR MIND JOURNEY, PLEASE DO REMEMBER THAT THE WORD "ENLIGHTENING" CAN BE DEFINED IN SO MANY WAYS, SUCH THAT SHE MAY DEFINE IT IN A WAY THAT ISN'T SIMILAR WITH YOURS. NEVERTHELESS, SHE BELIEVES THAT WHETHER IN A POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE MANNER, WORDS AND LANGUAGE CAN CHANGE THE WORLD. CARPE DIEM.

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Robert was ever in my consciousness; the blue star in the constellation of my personal cosmology.

Patti Smith (“Just Kids,” 2010)

When I look at it now, I never see me. I see us.

Patti Smith ("Just Kids," 2010)

(Patti talking about a picture of her taken by Robert)

His mission was not to reveal, but to document an aspect of sexuality, as it had never been done before.

Patti Smith (“Just Kids,” 2010)

...often contradiction is the clearest way to truth.

Patti Smith (“Just Kids,” 2010)

I wasn't gonna drag him around like some male trophy.

Patti Smith (“Just Kids,” 2010)

Robert was always my first listener and I developed a lot of confidence simply by reading to him.

Patti Smith (“Just Kids,” 2010)

My armor still had its vulnerable points, and Robert, my knight, had pierced a few.

Patti Smith (“Just Kids,” 2010)

Perhaps it was the closeness before the end, like a gentleman buying his mistress jewels before telling her it's over.

Patti Smith (“Just Kids,” 2010)

We had a beautiful day that blossomed into an usually passionate night. I happily wrote of this night in my diary, adding a small heart like a teenage girl.

Patti Smith (“Just Kids,” 2010)

'Oh, take their picture,' said the woman to her bemused husband, 'I think they're artists.' 'Oh, go on,' he shrugged. 'They're just kids.'

Patti Smith ("Just Kids," 2010)

Patti Smith ("Just Kids," 2010)

Henry James: What's your situation?

Patti Smith: On earth or in the universe?

...vagabonds will sometimes find one another.

Patti Smith (“Just Kids,” 2010)

But nature with all her force would have the final word.

Patti Smith (“Just Kids,” 2010)

...I appeared the same as ever, a moping twelve years-old, all arms and legs. But secretly I knew I had been transformed, moved by the revelation that human beings create art, that to be an artist was to see what others could not. I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one.

Patti Smith ("Just Kids," 2010)

The merry-go-round was slowing down. As I packed even the most insignificant of things accumulated in the past few years, they were accompanied by a slide show of faces, some of which I would never see again.

Patti Smith ("Just Kids," 2010)

...there is no pure evil, no pure good, only purity.

Patti Smith ("Just Kids," 2010)

In my low periods, I wondered what was the point of creating art. For whom? Are we animating God? Are we talking to ourselves? And what was the ultimate goal? To have one's work caged in art's great zoos - the Modern, the Met, the Louvre? I craved honesty, yet found dishonesty in myself. Why commit to art? For self-realization, or for itself? It seemed indulgent to add to the glut unless one offered illumination.

Patti Smith ("Just Kids," 2010)

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