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Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.

T. S. Eliot

In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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Decision Time
What is hell? Hell is oneself. Hell is alone, the other figures in it Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from And nothing to escape to. One is always alone.
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Alone Escape Hell Oneself Philosophy Spiritual
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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Communication Poetry Understand
This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.
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Joy Moments Oneself Pain
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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Growth Poet
Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
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Deep Love
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.
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Beautiful Courage Enough Life Man
In my end is my beginning.
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Beginning End Myself
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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Beginning Deep End Philosophy Start
Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
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Mess Success
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
Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
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End Friendship Reality Repair
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
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
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
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Business Ourselves

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