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

T. S. Eliot

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
Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
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Mess Success
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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Failure Writing
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
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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Myself Night Reading
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
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
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
In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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Decision Time
It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to be the fool you are. We must always take risks. That is our destiny.
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Destiny Fools Harm Ourselves Risk Yourself
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
If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.
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Acceptance Life Strength Yourself
Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
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Deep Love
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
Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.
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Be Yourself Feeling Self Love Thinking
I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, and I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, and in short, I was afraid.
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Fear Greatness Moments Myself See

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