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Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.

T. S. Eliot

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
In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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Decision Time
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
This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.
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Joy Moments Oneself Pain
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
I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.
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Greatness Learning Let Go Myself
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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Myself Night Reading
Do I dare Disturb the universe?
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Dare Myself World
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 read many books, because we cannot know enough people.
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Book Enough People Reading
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
Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
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End Friendship Reality Repair
Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
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Sanity Suffering World
Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
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Deep Love
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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Importance People Understand
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
This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.
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End Theory World
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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Communication Poetry Understand
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
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Inspirational Possible Risk
It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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Rule See Wisdom
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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Bad Enough Possible
Books. Cats. Life is good.
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Book Goodness Life
You are the music while the music lasts.
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Last Music Yourself
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
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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Failure Writing

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