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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
In my end is my beginning.
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Beginning End Myself
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
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
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us and we drown.
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Deep Dream Fantasy Girl Human Sea Voice Wake Up
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
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
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Inspirational Possible Risk
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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Importance People Understand
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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Failure Writing
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 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
Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
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Mess Success
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
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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Humor Serious
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Communication Poetry Understand
I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.
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Greatness Learning Let Go Myself

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