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This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.

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Teach us to care and not to care
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Care One Liner Teaching
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
Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
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Mess Success
If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Knowledge Yourself
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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Growth Poet
April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.
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Death Desire Flower Memories Rain Season Spring
We do not pass through the same door twice Or return to the door through which we did not pass.
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Philosophy Place Travel
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
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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Failure Writing
I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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Myself Sea Silence
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
In my end is my beginning.
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Beginning End Myself
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
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
It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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Rule See Wisdom

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