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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

Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
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Dance Exception
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
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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Humor Serious
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
We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.
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Exploration Place Time Travel
music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.
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Deep Last Music
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
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Business Ourselves
Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.
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Garden Memories Rose
If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Knowledge Yourself
This love is silent.
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Love One Liner Silence
Do I dare Disturb the universe?
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Dare Myself World
Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
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Sanity Suffering World
This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.
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End Theory World
So I find words I never thought to speak In streets I never thought I should revisit When I left my body on a distant shore.
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Body Myself Talk Thinking Word
What is hell? Hell is oneself. Hell is alone, the other figures in it Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from And nothing to escape to. One is always alone.
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Alone Escape Hell Oneself Philosophy Spiritual
Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.
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Death Deep Life Man

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