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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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In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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Decision Time
This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.
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Joy Moments Oneself Pain
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
What is hell? Hell is oneself. Hell is alone, the other figures in it Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from And nothing to escape to. One is always alone.
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Alone Escape Hell Oneself Philosophy Spiritual
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
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
Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
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Mess Success
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
It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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Rule See Wisdom
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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Bad Enough Possible
Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
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Sanity Suffering World
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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Humor Serious
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
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
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
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Business Ourselves
If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Knowledge Yourself

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