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For you know only a heap of broken images

T. S. Eliot

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
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
April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.
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Death Desire Flower Memories Rain Season Spring
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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Failure Writing
Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity
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Creation Mental
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Communication Poetry Understand
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
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
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
Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
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Mess Success
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
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
In my end is my beginning.
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Beginning End Myself
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

For you know only a heap of broken images

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