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We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.

T. S. Eliot

We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.
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Book Enough People Reading
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
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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Myself Night Reading
The last act is the greatest treason. To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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Act Greatness Reason Right Wrong
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
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
Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
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Mess Success
Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
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Sanity Suffering World
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
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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Bad Enough Possible
These fragments I have shored against my ruins
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Myself Pieces Ruin
In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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Decision Time
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Deep Knowledge Lost Wisdom
I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, and I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, and in short, I was afraid.
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Fear Greatness Moments Myself See
This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.
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Joy Moments Oneself Pain
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
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Business Ourselves

We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.

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