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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

T. S. Eliot

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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Humanity Reality
Distracted from distraction by distraction
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Distraction One Liner Philosophy
If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Knowledge Yourself
Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
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Deep Love
The last act is the greatest treason. To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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Act Greatness Reason Right Wrong
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
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Election Fake Live Peace Politics
Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.
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Death Deep Life Man
This love is silent.
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Love One Liner Silence
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
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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Ink Literature Poet Purpose
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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Bad Enough Possible
This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.
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End Theory World
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
I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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Myself Sea Silence
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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Communication Poetry Understand
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
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 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
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
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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Humor Serious
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
Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
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Dance Exception
Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
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Mess Success
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
We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.
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Book Enough People Reading
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

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