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This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.

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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
It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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Rule See Wisdom
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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Humanity Reality
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Communication Poetry Understand
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
Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
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Deep Love
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
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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Acceptance Past
The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man
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Best Evidence Existence Future Hope Library Man
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
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Election Fake Live Peace Politics
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
The visible reminder of Invisible Light.
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God Light One Liner Prayer
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
This love is silent.
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Love One Liner Silence
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
Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
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Mess Success

This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.

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