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I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

T. S. Eliot

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
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
This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.
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End Theory World
I can connect Nothing with nothing
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Connection Myself One Liner
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
music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.
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Deep Last Music
Do I dare Disturb the universe?
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Dare Myself World
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
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Election Fake Live Peace Politics
Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.
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Be Yourself Feeling Self Love Thinking
This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.
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Joy Moments Oneself Pain
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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Importance People Understand
It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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Rule See Wisdom
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
For you know only a heap of broken images
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Break Photograph Yourself
Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
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Sanity Suffering World
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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Failure Writing
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
There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.
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Death Life Oneself Remember Yourself
I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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Myself Sea Silence
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
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
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
In my end is my beginning.
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Beginning End Myself
Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
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Evil Goodness Intention People World
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
For I have known them all already, known them all—Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
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Evening Life Morning Myself
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

I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

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