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What is hell? Hell is oneself. Hell is alone, the other figures in it Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from And nothing to escape to. One is always alone.

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Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
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Mess Success
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
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
I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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Myself Sea Silence
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
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
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
Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity
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Creation Mental
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Communication Poetry Understand
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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Humor Serious
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
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
What is hell? Hell is oneself. Hell is alone, the other figures in it Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from And nothing to escape to. One is always alone.
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Alone Escape Hell Oneself Philosophy Spiritual
We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.
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Book Enough People Reading
Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
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Sanity Suffering World
Books. Cats. Life is good.
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Book Goodness Life

What is hell? Hell is oneself. Hell is alone, the other figures in it Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from And nothing to escape to. One is always alone.

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What is hell? Hell is oneself. Hell is alone, the other figures in it Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from And nothing to escape to. One is always alone.

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