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So I find words I never thought to speak In streets I never thought I should revisit When I left my body on a distant shore.

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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
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
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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Importance People Understand
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
For you know only a heap of broken images
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Break Photograph Yourself
Teach us to care and not to care
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Care One Liner Teaching
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
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Fear Feeling Grief Music
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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Fear Myself Yourself
Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
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Evil Goodness Intention People World
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
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Business Ourselves
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
Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
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Dance Exception
Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.
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Death Deep Life Man
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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Beginning Deep End Philosophy Start
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
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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Myself Night Reading

So I find words I never thought to speak In streets I never thought I should revisit When I left my body on a distant shore.

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