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We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.

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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
We don’t actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace.
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Absence Death Fade Fear Ourselves
It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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Rule See Wisdom
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
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
Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
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Deep Love
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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Failure Writing
You are the music while the music lasts.
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Last Music Yourself
This love is silent.
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Love One Liner Silence
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
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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Humanity Reality
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
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
Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.
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Beyond Escape Experience
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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