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We do not pass through the same door twice Or return to the door through which we did not pass.

T. S. Eliot

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
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
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.
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Beautiful Courage Enough Life Man
Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
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Deep Love
If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Knowledge Yourself
Teach us to care and not to care
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Care One Liner Teaching
Do I dare Disturb the universe?
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Dare Myself World
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
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
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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Humanity Reality
No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.
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Education Himself Interest Learning Ourselves Pursue
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
It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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Rule See Wisdom
This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.
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End Theory World
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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Failure Writing
These fragments I have shored against my ruins
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Myself Pieces Ruin

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