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For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

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We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.
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Book Enough People Reading
I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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Myself Sea Silence
We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.
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Exploration Place Time Travel
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
Do I dare Disturb the universe?
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Dare Myself World
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
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
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
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
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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Acceptance Past
You are the music while the music lasts.
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Last Music 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
Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
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Deep Love
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.
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Fantasy Myself Sing Thinking
Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.
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Death Deep Life Man
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

For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

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