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I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, and I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, and in short, I was afraid.

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Teach us to care and not to care
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Care One Liner Teaching
For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.
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Change Language Voice Word
It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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Rule See 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
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
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
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.
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Beautiful Courage Enough Life Man
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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Humanity Reality
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
Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
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Dance Exception
Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
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End Friendship Reality Repair
Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity
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Creation Mental
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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Communication Poetry Understand
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

I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, and I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, and in short, I was afraid.

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I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, and I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, and in short, I was afraid.

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