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I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

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Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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Bad Enough Possible
There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet
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People Preparation Time
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
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
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
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Election Fake Live Peace Politics
Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
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End Friendship Reality Repair
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us and we drown.
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Deep Dream Fantasy Girl Human Sea Voice Wake Up
The visible reminder of Invisible Light.
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God Light One Liner Prayer
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
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Business Ourselves
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.
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Beautiful Courage Enough Life Man
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
For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.
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Change Language Voice Word
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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Humanity Reality
Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.
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Decision Time Vision Yourself
Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
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Evil Goodness Intention People World
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

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