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Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech

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We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.
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Deep Different Experience Missing
Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
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Evil Goodness Intention People World
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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Growth Poet
These fragments I have shored against my ruins
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Myself Pieces Ruin
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
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Business Ourselves
Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.
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Death Deep Life Man
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
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
You are the music while the music lasts.
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Last Music Yourself
The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man
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Best Evidence Existence Future Hope Library Man
This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.
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End Theory World
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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Fear Myself Yourself
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
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Inspirational Possible Risk
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
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
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
Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
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Sanity Suffering World
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
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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Communication Poetry Understand
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
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
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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Bad Enough Possible
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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Acceptance Past
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
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

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