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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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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
Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.
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Death Deep Life Man
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
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
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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Acceptance Past
Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
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Dance Exception
Distracted from distraction by distraction
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Distraction One Liner Philosophy
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
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Inspirational Possible Risk
It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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Rule See Wisdom
If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.
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Acceptance Life Strength Yourself
In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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Decision Time
I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.
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Greatness Learning Let Go Myself
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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Humor Serious
We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.
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Exploration Place Time Travel
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
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
These fragments I have shored against my ruins
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Myself Pieces Ruin
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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Ink Literature Poet Purpose
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
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 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
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
If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Knowledge Yourself
Do I dare Disturb the universe?
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Dare Myself World
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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Myself Night Reading
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Communication Poetry Understand

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