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In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

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
We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.
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Deep Different Experience Missing
It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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Rule See Wisdom
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Deep Knowledge Lost Wisdom
I have measured out my life in coffee spoons.
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Life Myself
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
There’s no vocabulary For love within a family, love that’s lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent.
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Deep Family Light Love See Silence Talk
Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
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Deep Love
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
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
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
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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Myself Night Reading
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
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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Growth Poet
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
I can connect Nothing with nothing
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Connection Myself One Liner

In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

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