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We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.

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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
Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
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Deep Love
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
Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
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Mess Success
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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Alone Escape Hell Oneself Philosophy Spiritual
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
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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Ink Literature Poet Purpose
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
Teach us to care and not to care
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Care One Liner Teaching
This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.
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End Theory World
Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.
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Death Deep Life Man
It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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Rule See Wisdom
If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.
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Acceptance Life Strength Yourself
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
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
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

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