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

T. S. Eliot

For you know only a heap of broken images
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Break Photograph Yourself
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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Failure Writing
For I have known them all already, known them all—Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
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Evening Life Morning Myself
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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Fear Myself Yourself
Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
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Mess Success
Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
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Sanity Suffering World
Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.
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Decision Time Vision Yourself
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
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.
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Be Yourself Feeling Self Love Thinking
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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Acceptance Past
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
Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.
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Death Deep Life Man
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
Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
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Evil Goodness Intention People World
It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to be the fool you are. We must always take risks. That is our destiny.
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Destiny Fools Harm Ourselves Risk Yourself
The last act is the greatest treason. To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
T. S. ELIOT

Act Greatness Reason Right Wrong

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