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

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You are the music while the music lasts.
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Last Music Yourself
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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Myself Night Reading
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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Humor Serious
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Communication Poetry Understand
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
Teach us to care and not to care
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Care One Liner Teaching
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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Importance People 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
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
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
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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Failure Writing
The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man
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Best Evidence Existence Future Hope Library Man
Distracted from distraction by distraction
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Distraction One Liner Philosophy
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
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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Growth Poet
In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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Decision Time
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 love is silent.
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Love One Liner Silence
The visible reminder of Invisible Light.
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God Light One Liner Prayer
What is hell? Hell is oneself. Hell is alone, the other figures in it Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from And nothing to escape to. One is always alone.
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Alone Escape Hell Oneself Philosophy Spiritual
For you know only a heap of broken images
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Break Photograph Yourself
Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
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Dance Exception
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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Humanity Reality
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
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
Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
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Deep Love
Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech
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Body Lover Need Talk Thinking True Love

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

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