black
grey
blue
red
brown
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I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.

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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
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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Ink Literature Poet Purpose
Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
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Evil Goodness Intention People World
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 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 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
Books. Cats. Life is good.
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Book Goodness Life
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
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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Importance People Understand
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
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
I have measured out my life in coffee spoons.
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Life Myself
Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
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Mess Success
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
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
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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