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Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it

T. S. Eliot

There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet
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People Preparation Time
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
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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Beautiful Courage Enough Life Man
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
Teach us to care and not to care
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Care One Liner Teaching
This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.
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End Theory World
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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Be Yourself Feeling Self Love Thinking
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
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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Importance People Understand
Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
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Deep Love
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
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
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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Growth Poet
Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
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Evil Goodness Intention People World
April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.
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Death Desire Flower Memories Rain Season Spring
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
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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Acceptance Past
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
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Inspirational Possible Risk
music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.
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Deep Last Music
The last act is the greatest treason. To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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Act Greatness Reason Right Wrong
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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Myself Night Reading
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
I can connect Nothing with nothing
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Connection Myself One Liner
These fragments I have shored against my ruins
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Myself Pieces Ruin
It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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Rule See Wisdom
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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Failure Writing

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