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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.

T. S. Eliot

This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.
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Joy Moments Oneself Pain
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
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
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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Communication Poetry Understand
Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
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Mess Success
It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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Rule See Wisdom
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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Ink Literature Poet Purpose
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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Acceptance Past
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.
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Fantasy Myself Sing Thinking
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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Importance People Understand
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
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
Teach us to care and not to care
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Care One Liner Teaching
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
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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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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