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This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.

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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’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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity
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Creation Mental
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
Do I dare Disturb the universe?
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Dare Myself World
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
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Inspirational Possible Risk
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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Fear Myself Yourself

This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.

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