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Teach us to care and not to care

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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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Humanity Reality
For you know only a heap of broken images
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Break Photograph Yourself
I have measured out my life in coffee spoons.
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Life Myself
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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Growth Poet
Distracted from distraction by distraction
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Distraction One Liner Philosophy
Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
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Dance Exception
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 can connect Nothing with nothing
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Connection Myself One Liner
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
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
These fragments I have shored against my ruins
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Myself Pieces Ruin
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
Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity
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Creation Mental
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
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
I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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Myself Sea Silence

Teach us to care and not to care

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