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

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If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Knowledge Yourself
There’s no vocabulary For love within a family, love that’s lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent.
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Deep Family Light Love See Silence Talk
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
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
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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Failure Writing
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
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Business Ourselves
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
I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, and I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, and in short, I was afraid.
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Fear Greatness Moments Myself See
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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Humor Serious
Teach us to care and not to care
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Care One Liner Teaching
Distracted from distraction by distraction
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Distraction One Liner Philosophy
Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
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Evil Goodness Intention People World
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
We do not pass through the same door twice Or return to the door through which we did not pass.
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Philosophy Place Travel
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 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
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
There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet
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People Preparation Time
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
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
You are the music while the music lasts.
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Last Music Yourself
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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Growth Poet
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
I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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Myself Sea Silence
Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
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Deep Love
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

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

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