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

T. S. Eliot

Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech
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Body Lover Need Talk Thinking True Love
No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.
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Education Himself Interest Learning Ourselves Pursue
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
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Business Ourselves
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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Myself Night Reading
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
The visible reminder of Invisible Light.
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God Light One Liner Prayer
Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.
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Death Deep Life Man
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
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
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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Importance People Understand
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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Communication Poetry Understand
Teach us to care and not to care
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Care One Liner Teaching
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
We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.
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Book Enough People Reading
There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet
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People Preparation Time

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

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