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Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

T. S. Eliot

These fragments I have shored against my ruins
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Myself Pieces Ruin
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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Fear Myself Yourself
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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Greatness Learning Let Go Myself
Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
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Joke Listen Lonely People
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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Ink Literature Poet Purpose
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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Humanity Reality
This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.
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Joy Moments Oneself Pain
Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
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Mess Success
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
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
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
Teach us to care and not to care
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Care One Liner Teaching
You are the music while the music lasts.
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Last Music Yourself
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
In my end is my beginning.
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Beginning End Myself
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us and we drown.
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Deep Dream Fantasy Girl Human Sea Voice Wake Up

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