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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

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I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.
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Fantasy Myself Sing Thinking
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
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
Distracted from distraction by distraction
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Distraction One Liner Philosophy
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
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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Growth Poet
This love is silent.
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Love One Liner Silence
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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Myself Night Reading
Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
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Evil Goodness Intention People World
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
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Business Ourselves
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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Humanity Reality
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Knowledge Life Live Lost Wisdom
You are the music while the music lasts.
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Last Music Yourself
April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.
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Death Desire Flower Memories Rain Season Spring
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
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

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