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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?

T. S. Eliot

If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Knowledge Yourself
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
These fragments I have shored against my ruins
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Myself Pieces Ruin
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Deep Knowledge Lost Wisdom
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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Acceptance Past
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 read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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Myself Night Reading
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
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
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
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
In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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Decision Time
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 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
Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
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Mess Success

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