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

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Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
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Dance Exception
These fragments I have shored against my ruins
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Myself Pieces Ruin
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
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
If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Knowledge 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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Communication Poetry Understand
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
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
This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.
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End Theory World
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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Acceptance Past
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
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
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Business Ourselves
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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Humor Serious
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
The visible reminder of Invisible Light.
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God Light One Liner Prayer

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