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I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.

T. S. Eliot

Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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Bad Enough Possible
Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.
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Garden Memories Rose
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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Fear Myself Yourself
Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past.
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Past Present Science Time
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
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
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
This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.
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End Theory World
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
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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Beginning Deep End Philosophy Start
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
We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.
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Deep Different Experience Missing
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
Do I dare Disturb the universe?
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Dare Myself World
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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Growth Poet
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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Humanity Reality

I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.

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