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.
T. S. ELIOTFor us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
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Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
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There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.
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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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Do I dare Disturb the universe?
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Books. Cats. Life is good.
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We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.
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For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
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Distracted from distraction by distraction
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Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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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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We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.
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For you know only a heap of broken images
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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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Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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I have measured out my life in coffee spoons.
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