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

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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 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
I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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Myself Sea Silence
No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.
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Education Himself Interest Learning Ourselves Pursue
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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Acceptance Past
For you know only a heap of broken images
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Break Photograph Yourself
In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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Decision Time
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
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
Books. Cats. Life is good.
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Book Goodness Life
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
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
These fragments I have shored against my ruins
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Myself Pieces Ruin
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
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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Humanity Reality

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

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