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The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

T. S. Eliot

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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Humanity Reality
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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Fear Myself Yourself
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
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
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Fear Feeling Grief Music
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
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 us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
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Business Ourselves
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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Humor Serious
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
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
Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
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Joke Listen Lonely People
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
Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
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Sanity Suffering World
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
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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Myself Night Reading
Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past.
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Past Present Science Time

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