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

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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
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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Humor Serious
There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet
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People Preparation Time
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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Humanity Reality
Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
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Evil Goodness Intention People World
Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity
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Creation Mental
I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, and I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, and in short, I was afraid.
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Fear Greatness Moments Myself See
So I find words I never thought to speak In streets I never thought I should revisit When I left my body on a distant shore.
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Body Myself Talk Thinking Word
Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
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End Friendship Reality Repair
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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Failure Writing
The visible reminder of Invisible Light.
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God Light One Liner Prayer
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
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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Communication Poetry Understand
For I have known them all already, known them all—Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
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Evening Life Morning Myself

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