We don’t actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace.
T. S. ELIOTWe 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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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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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
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The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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So I find words I never thought to speak In streets I never thought I should revisit When I left my body on a distant shore.
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Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.
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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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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
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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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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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We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.
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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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Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
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We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.
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Books. Cats. Life is good.
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If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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