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Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.

T. S. Eliot

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
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
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
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
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
Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
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Mess Success
Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech
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Body Lover Need Talk Thinking True Love
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
In my end is my beginning.
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Beginning End Myself
Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
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Joke Listen Lonely People
If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Knowledge Yourself
We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.
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Book Enough People Reading
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
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
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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Importance People Understand
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

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