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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.

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This love is silent.
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Love One Liner Silence
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
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Fear Feeling Grief Music
Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.
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Death Deep Life Man
This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.
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End Theory World
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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Fear Myself Yourself
We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.
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Book Enough People Reading
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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Humanity Reality
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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Growth Poet
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
I can connect Nothing with nothing
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Connection Myself One Liner
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
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
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
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
Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
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Dance Exception
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
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
These fragments I have shored against my ruins
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Myself Pieces Ruin
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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Importance People Understand
It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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Rule See Wisdom
Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
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Deep Love
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
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
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
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Business Ourselves
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
The visible reminder of Invisible Light.
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God Light One Liner Prayer
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

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