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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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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
Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
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Sanity Suffering World
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
For I have known them all already, known them all—Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
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Evening Life Morning Myself
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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Bad Enough Possible
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
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
Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
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Mess Success
In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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Decision Time
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
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
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
Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
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Deep Love
Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.
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Death Deep Life Man
I have measured out my life in coffee spoons.
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Life Myself

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