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

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We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.
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Book Enough People Reading
The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man
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Best Evidence Existence Future Hope Library Man
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
You are the music while the music lasts.
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Last Music Yourself
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
I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.
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Myself Photograph Suffering
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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Ink Literature Poet Purpose
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
This love is silent.
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Love One Liner Silence
The visible reminder of Invisible Light.
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God Light One Liner Prayer
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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Growth Poet
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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Acceptance Past
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
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
In my end is my beginning.
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Beginning End Myself
Distracted from distraction by distraction
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Distraction One Liner Philosophy
It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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Rule See Wisdom
Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
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Deep Love
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
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
There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.
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Death Life Oneself Remember Yourself
These fragments I have shored against my ruins
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Myself Pieces Ruin
Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
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Sanity Suffering World
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
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Fear Feeling Grief Music
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
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Business Ourselves
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
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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Bad Enough Possible

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