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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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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
Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
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Sanity Suffering World
We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.
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Book Enough People Reading
Books. Cats. Life is good.
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Book Goodness Life
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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Bad Enough Possible
It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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Rule See Wisdom
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
Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
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Dance Exception
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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Ink Literature Poet Purpose
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
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
This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.
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Joy Moments Oneself Pain
In my end is my beginning.
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Beginning End Myself
Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
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Joke Listen Lonely People
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 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

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