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

T. S. Eliot

Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
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Sanity Suffering World
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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Humor Serious
Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.
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Beyond Escape Experience
Books. Cats. Life is good.
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Book Goodness Life
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Communication Poetry Understand
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
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Business Ourselves
In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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Decision Time
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
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
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
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
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Inspirational Possible Risk
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
I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.
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Myself Photograph Suffering
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
We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.
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Exploration Place Time Travel

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

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