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It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.

T. S. Eliot

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
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
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
Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
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End Friendship Reality Repair
This love is silent.
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Love One Liner Silence
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
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
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
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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Growth Poet
Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
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Evil Goodness Intention People World
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
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
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Business Ourselves
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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Humor Serious
This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.
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End Theory World
I have measured out my life in coffee spoons.
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Life Myself
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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Bad Enough Possible

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