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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

T. S. Eliot

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
Do I dare Disturb the universe?
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Dare Myself World
Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past.
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Past Present Science Time
We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.
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Book Enough People Reading
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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Fear Myself Yourself
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
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
This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.
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End Theory World
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 learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.
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Greatness Learning Let Go Myself
In my end is my beginning.
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Beginning End Myself
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
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
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
There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.
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Death Life Oneself Remember Yourself

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

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