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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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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
This love is silent.
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Love One Liner Silence
It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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Rule See Wisdom
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
These fragments I have shored against my ruins
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Myself Pieces Ruin
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
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
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
You are the music while the music lasts.
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Last Music Yourself
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
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
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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Acceptance Past
This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.
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Joy Moments Oneself Pain
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
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Inspirational Possible Risk
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
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us and we drown.
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Deep Dream Fantasy Girl Human Sea Voice Wake Up

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