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I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.

T. S. Eliot

Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.
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Garden Memories Rose
We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.
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Book Enough People Reading
If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Knowledge Yourself
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
So I find words I never thought to speak In streets I never thought I should revisit When I left my body on a distant shore.
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Body Myself Talk Thinking Word
The visible reminder of Invisible Light.
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God Light One Liner Prayer
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
Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
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Mess Success
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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Bad Enough Possible
We do not pass through the same door twice Or return to the door through which we did not pass.
T. S. ELIOT

Philosophy Place Travel
For you know only a heap of broken images
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Break Photograph Yourself
Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
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End Friendship Reality Repair
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
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
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Business Ourselves
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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Education Himself Interest Learning Ourselves Pursue
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.
T. S. ELIOT

Be Yourself Feeling Self Love Thinking

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