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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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I have measured out my life in coffee spoons.
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Life 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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Communication Poetry Understand
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
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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Failure Writing
I can connect Nothing with nothing
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Connection Myself One Liner
For you know only a heap of broken images
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Break Photograph Yourself
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
If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Knowledge Yourself
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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Humanity Reality
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
I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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Myself Sea Silence
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
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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Humor Serious
Books. Cats. Life is good.
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Book Goodness Life

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