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Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.

T. S. Eliot

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
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
In my end is my beginning.
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Beginning End Myself
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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Ink Literature Poet Purpose
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?
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Knowledge Life Live Lost Wisdom
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
I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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Myself Sea Silence
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
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Business Ourselves
Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
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Deep Love
For you know only a heap of broken images
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Break Photograph Yourself
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
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
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
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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Bad Enough Possible
Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
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Dance Exception
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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Humanity Reality
Distracted from distraction by distraction
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Distraction One Liner Philosophy
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
Books. Cats. Life is good.
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Book Goodness Life
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
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
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
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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Beginning Deep End Philosophy Start
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
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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Humor Serious
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

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