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Teach us to care and not to care

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I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.
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Fantasy Myself Sing Thinking
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
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Election Fake Live Peace Politics
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
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Fear Feeling Grief Music
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 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
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 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
Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past.
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Past Present Science Time
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Care One Liner Teaching
In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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Decision Time
Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity
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Creation Mental
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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Importance People 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
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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Acceptance Past
This love is silent.
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Love One Liner Silence
Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
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End Friendship Reality Repair
If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Knowledge 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
Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.
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Death Deep Life Man
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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Beginning Deep End Philosophy Start
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
Do I dare Disturb the universe?
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Dare Myself World
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Deep Knowledge Lost Wisdom
Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
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Mess Success
Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.
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Decision Time Vision Yourself
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
Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
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Deep Love

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