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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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We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.
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Book Enough People Reading
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
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
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
This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.
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End Theory World
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
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
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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Fear Myself Yourself
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
I have measured out my life in coffee spoons.
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Life Myself
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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Myself Night Reading
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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Failure Writing
I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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Myself Sea Silence
We don’t actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace.
T. S. ELIOT

Absence Death Fade Fear Ourselves
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
music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.
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Deep Last Music

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