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

T. S. Eliot

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man
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Best Evidence Existence Future Hope Library Man
music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.
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Deep Last Music
Books. Cats. Life is good.
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Book Goodness Life
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
This love is silent.
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Love One Liner Silence
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
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
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
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
Do I dare Disturb the universe?
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Dare Myself World
No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.
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Education Himself Interest Learning Ourselves Pursue
There’s no vocabulary For love within a family, love that’s lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent.
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Deep Family Light Love See Silence Talk
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
Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
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Sanity Suffering World
Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
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End Friendship Reality Repair
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.
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Beautiful Courage Enough Life Man
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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Humanity Reality
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
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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Myself Night Reading
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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Failure Writing
Distracted from distraction by distraction
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Distraction One Liner Philosophy
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
Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
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Mess Success
In my end is my beginning.
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Beginning End Myself
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
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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Fear Myself Yourself
These fragments I have shored against my ruins
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Myself Pieces Ruin

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