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

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Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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Bad Enough Possible
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Communication Poetry Understand
I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.
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Myself Photograph Suffering
Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
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Mess Success
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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Acceptance Past
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Knowledge Life Live Lost Wisdom
I have measured out my life in coffee spoons.
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Life Myself
Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity
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Creation Mental
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
The last act is the greatest treason. To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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Act Greatness Reason Right Wrong
If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Knowledge Yourself
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
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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Ink Literature Poet Purpose
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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Failure Writing
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
Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.
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Beyond Escape Experience

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

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