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If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

T. S. Eliot

I have measured out my life in coffee spoons.
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Life Myself
Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.
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Death Deep Life Man
If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Knowledge Yourself
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
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
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
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
Do I dare Disturb the universe?
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Dare Myself World
The last act is the greatest treason. To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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Act Greatness Reason Right Wrong
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
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
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
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
Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.
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Be Yourself Feeling Self Love Thinking
I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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Myself Sea Silence
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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Myself Night Reading

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