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The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

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You are the music while the music lasts.
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Last Music Yourself
This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.
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End Theory World
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
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Ink Literature Poet Purpose
For I have known them all already, known them all—Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
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Evening Life Morning 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
Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
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Deep Love
So I find words I never thought to speak In streets I never thought I should revisit When I left my body on a distant shore.
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Body Myself Talk Thinking Word
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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Myself Night Reading
The visible reminder of Invisible Light.
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God Light One Liner Prayer
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
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
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
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Election Fake Live Peace Politics
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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Importance People Understand
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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Bad Enough Possible
Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
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Mess Success

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