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

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Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
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Evil Goodness Intention People World
Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
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Deep Love
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
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
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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Ink Literature Poet Purpose
Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
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Sanity Suffering World
Teach us to care and not to care
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Care One Liner Teaching
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
I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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Myself Sea Silence
For I have known them all already, known them all—Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
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Evening Life Morning Myself
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
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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Humanity Reality
It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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Rule See Wisdom
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Communication Poetry Understand
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
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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