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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

T. S. Eliot

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
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Inspirational Possible Risk
We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.
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End Ourselves Place Start Time Travel
This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.
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Joy Moments Oneself Pain
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
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
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
Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
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End Friendship Reality Repair
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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Fear Myself Yourself
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
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Election Fake Live Peace Politics
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
Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
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Dance Exception
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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Importance People Understand
Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.
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Death Deep Life Man
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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Acceptance Past
For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.
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Change Language Voice Word
Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past.
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Past Present Science Time

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