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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

T. S. Eliot

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
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 had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.
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Deep Different Experience Missing
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
I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.
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Greatness Learning Let Go Myself
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
In my end is my beginning.
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Beginning End Myself
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
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
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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Acceptance Past
Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech
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Body Lover Need Talk Thinking True Love
If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Knowledge Yourself
It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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Rule See Wisdom
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
In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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Decision Time
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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Humor Serious

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

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