I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
T. S. ELIOTSometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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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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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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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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Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity
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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
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There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.
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I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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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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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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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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We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.
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Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
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