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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

April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.
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Death Desire Flower Memories Rain Season Spring
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Knowledge Life Live Lost Wisdom
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
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
Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
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Joke Listen Lonely People
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
Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
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Mess Success
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
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
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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Acceptance Past
Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity
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Creation Mental
I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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Myself Sea Silence
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
In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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Decision Time
In my end is my beginning.
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Beginning End Myself
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
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