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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.

T. S. Eliot

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
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Inspirational Possible Risk
If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Knowledge Yourself
I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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Myself Sea Silence
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
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
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
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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Growth Poet
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
This love is silent.
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Love One Liner Silence
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Communication Poetry Understand
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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Ink Literature Poet Purpose
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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Beginning Deep End Philosophy Start
We do not pass through the same door twice Or return to the door through which we did not pass.
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Philosophy Place Travel
Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
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Sanity Suffering World
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
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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Humor Serious

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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