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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

T. S. Eliot

Distracted from distraction by distraction
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Distraction One Liner Philosophy
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
This love is silent.
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Love One Liner Silence
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
Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.
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Decision Time Vision Yourself
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
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Inspirational Possible Risk
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
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
I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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Myself Sea Silence
The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man
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Best Evidence Existence Future Hope Library Man
Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity
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Creation Mental
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Communication Poetry Understand
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
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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Failure Writing
I can connect Nothing with nothing
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Connection Myself One Liner
Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
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Dance Exception

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