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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

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This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.
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Joy Moments Oneself Pain
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
If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.
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Acceptance Life Strength Yourself
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Communication Poetry Understand
Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
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Deep Love
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
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
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
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
What is hell? Hell is oneself. Hell is alone, the other figures in it Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from And nothing to escape to. One is always alone.
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Alone Escape Hell Oneself Philosophy Spiritual
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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Acceptance Past
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
Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
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Dance Exception
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
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Business Ourselves
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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Bad Enough Possible
Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.
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Decision Time Vision Yourself

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