Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
T. S. ELIOTExcept for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
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If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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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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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
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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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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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It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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We do not pass through the same door twice Or return to the door through which we did not pass.
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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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I can connect Nothing with nothing
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Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
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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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Do I dare Disturb the universe?
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Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
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This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.
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