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I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

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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
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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Bad Enough Possible
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
Teach us to care and not to care
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Care One Liner Teaching
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
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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Fear Myself Yourself
Distracted from distraction by distraction
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Distraction One Liner Philosophy
Do I dare Disturb the universe?
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Dare Myself World
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
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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Importance People Understand
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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Ink Literature Poet Purpose
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
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.
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Fantasy Myself Sing Thinking
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
I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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Myself Sea Silence
You are the music while the music lasts.
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Last Music Yourself

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

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