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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 seen the moment of my greatness flicker, and I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, and in short, I was afraid.
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Fear Greatness Moments Myself See
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
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 those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
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Inspirational Possible Risk
Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
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Mess Success
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
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
You are the music while the music lasts.
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Last Music Yourself
Teach us to care and not to care
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Care One Liner Teaching
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
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
Distracted from distraction by distraction
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Distraction One Liner Philosophy
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
I can connect Nothing with nothing
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Connection Myself One Liner
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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Ink Literature Poet Purpose
Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.
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Death Deep Life Man

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