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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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This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.
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End Theory World
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
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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Growth Poet
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Knowledge Life Live Lost Wisdom
Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.
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Decision Time Vision Yourself
For you know only a heap of broken images
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Break Photograph Yourself
Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
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Mess Success
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
I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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Myself Sea Silence
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
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Business Ourselves
If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.
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Acceptance Life Strength Yourself
There’s no vocabulary For love within a family, love that’s lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent.
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Deep Family Light Love See Silence Talk
Distracted from distraction by distraction
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Distraction One Liner Philosophy
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
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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Importance People Understand
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

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

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