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

T. S. Eliot

People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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Importance People Understand
It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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Rule See Wisdom
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
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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Humanity Reality
So I find words I never thought to speak In streets I never thought I should revisit When I left my body on a distant shore.
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Body Myself Talk Thinking Word
Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.
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Death Deep Life Man
I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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Myself Sea Silence
We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.
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Deep Different Experience Missing
In my end is my beginning.
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Beginning End Myself
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
We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.
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End Ourselves Place Start Time Travel
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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Communication Poetry Understand
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
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
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

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

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

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