We don’t actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace.
T. S. ELIOTI read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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Distracted from distraction by distraction
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Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
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You are the music while the music lasts.
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Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.
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Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.
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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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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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These fragments I have shored against my ruins
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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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Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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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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This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.
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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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