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Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

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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
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 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
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
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Inspirational Possible Risk
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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Failure Writing
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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Ink Literature Poet Purpose
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
In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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Decision Time
There’s no vocabulary For love within a family, love that’s lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent.
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Deep Family Light Love See Silence Talk
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
We do not pass through the same door twice Or return to the door through which we did not pass.
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Philosophy Place Travel
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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Beginning Deep End Philosophy Start
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
Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
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Evil Goodness Intention People World
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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Humor Serious
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
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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Fear Myself Yourself
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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Communication Poetry Understand
We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.
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Book Enough People Reading
For you know only a heap of broken images
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Break Photograph Yourself
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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Importance People Understand
Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
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End Friendship Reality Repair
We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.
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End Ourselves Place Start Time Travel
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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Myself Night Reading
In my end is my beginning.
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Beginning End Myself

Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

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