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For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

T. S. Eliot

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
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
This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.
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End Theory World
These fragments I have shored against my ruins
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Myself Pieces Ruin
If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Knowledge Yourself
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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Fear Myself Yourself
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
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
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Business Ourselves
Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity
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Creation Mental
This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.
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Joy Moments Oneself Pain
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
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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Myself Night Reading
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
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 don’t actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace.
T. S. ELIOT

Absence Death Fade Fear Ourselves

For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

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