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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.

T. S. Eliot

Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
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Mess Success
There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet
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People Preparation Time
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
Teach us to care and not to care
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Care One Liner Teaching
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
Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
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Sanity Suffering World
In my end is my beginning.
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Beginning End Myself
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
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
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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Fear Myself Yourself
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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Beginning Deep End Philosophy Start
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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Humanity Reality
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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Failure Writing
Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.
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Death Deep Life Man
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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Ink Literature Poet Purpose
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

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