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In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

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We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.
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Book Enough People Reading
I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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Myself Sea Silence
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
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
If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Knowledge Yourself
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
Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
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Sanity Suffering World
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
Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
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Dance Exception
Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
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Deep Love
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
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
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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Growth Poet
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
The visible reminder of Invisible Light.
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God Light One Liner Prayer
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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Importance People Understand

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