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T. S. Eliot

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
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
Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.
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Beyond Escape Experience
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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Fear Myself Yourself
Distracted from distraction by distraction
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Distraction One Liner Philosophy
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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Bad Enough Possible
This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.
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End Theory World
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
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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Myself Night Reading
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
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.
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Fantasy Myself Sing Thinking
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
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Knowledge Life Live Lost Wisdom
We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.
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Book Enough People Reading
Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
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Sanity Suffering World
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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Importance People Understand

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