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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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This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.
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Joy Moments Oneself Pain
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Knowledge Life Live Lost Wisdom
We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.
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Deep Different Experience Missing
Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
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Evil Goodness Intention People World
Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech
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Body Lover Need Talk Thinking True Love
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
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
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
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
Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
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Mess Success
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
These fragments I have shored against my ruins
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Myself Pieces Ruin
I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.
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Myself Photograph Suffering
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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Humanity Reality
In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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Decision Time
If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Knowledge Yourself
This love is silent.
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Love One Liner Silence
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
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
I have measured out my life in coffee spoons.
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Life Myself
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
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
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Inspirational Possible Risk
Teach us to care and not to care
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Care One Liner Teaching
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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Fear Greatness Moments Myself See
For you know only a heap of broken images
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Break Photograph Yourself
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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Fear Myself Yourself

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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