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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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We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.
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End Ourselves Place Start Time Travel
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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Communication Poetry Understand
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
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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Myself Night Reading
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
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
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
This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.
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End Theory World
Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
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Dance Exception
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
This love is silent.
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Love One Liner Silence
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 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
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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Fear Myself Yourself
Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
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Deep Love
Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
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Sanity Suffering World
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
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Inspirational Possible Risk
It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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Rule See Wisdom
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
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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Acceptance Past
Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity
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Creation Mental
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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Humor Serious
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
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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Ink Literature Poet Purpose
In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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Decision Time

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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