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Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

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It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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Rule See Wisdom
Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
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Dance Exception
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
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
Do I dare Disturb the universe?
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Dare Myself World
I have measured out my life in coffee spoons.
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Life Myself
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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Importance People Understand
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
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
If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Knowledge Yourself
Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity
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Creation Mental
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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Alone Escape Hell Oneself Philosophy Spiritual
I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.
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Myself Photograph Suffering
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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Humor Serious
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 read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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Myself Night Reading

Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

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