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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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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
For you know only a heap of broken images
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Break Photograph Yourself
In my end is my beginning.
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Beginning End Myself
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
We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.
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End Ourselves Place Start Time Travel
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Communication Poetry Understand
It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to be the fool you are. We must always take risks. That is our destiny.
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Destiny Fools Harm Ourselves Risk Yourself
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
Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
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Dance Exception
We do not pass through the same door twice Or return to the door through which we did not pass.
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Philosophy Place Travel
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
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
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
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
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 will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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Fear Myself Yourself
Distracted from distraction by distraction
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Distraction One Liner Philosophy
Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
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Joke Listen Lonely People
Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
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Mess Success
These fragments I have shored against my ruins
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Myself Pieces Ruin
Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
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Sanity Suffering World
Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity
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Creation Mental
I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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Myself Sea Silence
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
Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
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End Friendship Reality Repair
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
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

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