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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

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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Humanity Reality
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
If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Knowledge Yourself
I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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Myself Sea Silence
Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
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Mess Success
For you know only a heap of broken images
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Break Photograph Yourself
In my end is my beginning.
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Beginning End Myself
Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.
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Death Deep Life Man
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
If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.
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Acceptance Life Strength Yourself
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Deep Knowledge Lost Wisdom
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
Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.
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Decision Time Vision Yourself
I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, and I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, and in short, I was afraid.
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Fear Greatness Moments Myself See
For I have known them all already, known them all—Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
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Evening Life Morning Myself
I have measured out my life in coffee spoons.
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Life Myself

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