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If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

T. S. Eliot

No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.
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Education Himself Interest Learning Ourselves Pursue
We don’t actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace.
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Absence Death Fade Fear Ourselves
Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
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Sanity Suffering World
The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man
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Best Evidence Existence Future Hope Library Man
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
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Inspirational Possible Risk
For I have known them all already, known them all—Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
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Evening Life Morning Myself
Do I dare Disturb the universe?
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Dare Myself World
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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Beginning Deep End Philosophy Start
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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Acceptance Past
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.
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Fantasy Myself Sing Thinking
Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
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Evil Goodness Intention People World
I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.
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Greatness Learning Let Go Myself
I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.
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Myself Photograph Suffering
These fragments I have shored against my ruins
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Myself Pieces Ruin
Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech
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Body Lover Need Talk Thinking True Love
This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.
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End Theory World

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