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

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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
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
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 one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.
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Joy Moments Oneself Pain
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 read many books, because we cannot know enough people.
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Book Enough People Reading
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
Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
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Mess Success
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
For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.
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Change Language Voice Word
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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Humor Serious
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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Fear Myself Yourself
This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.
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End Theory World
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
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

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

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