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I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.

T. S. Eliot

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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Communication Poetry Understand
I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.
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Greatness Learning Let Go Myself
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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Bad Enough Possible
These fragments I have shored against my ruins
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Myself Pieces Ruin
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
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
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
You are the music while the music lasts.
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Last Music Yourself
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 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
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
In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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Decision Time
Teach us to care and not to care
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Care One Liner Teaching
There’s no vocabulary For love within a family, love that’s lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent.
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Deep Family Light Love See Silence Talk
It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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Rule See Wisdom

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