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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us and we drown.

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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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Humanity Reality
You are the music while the music lasts.
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Last Music Yourself
Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
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Deep Love
Teach us to care and not to care
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Care One Liner Teaching
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
If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Knowledge Yourself
Distracted from distraction by distraction
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Distraction One Liner Philosophy
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
Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
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End Friendship Reality Repair
So I find words I never thought to speak In streets I never thought I should revisit When I left my body on a distant shore.
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Body Myself Talk Thinking Word
It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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Rule See Wisdom
In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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Decision Time
Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity
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Creation Mental
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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Acceptance Past
The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man
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Best Evidence Existence Future Hope Library Man
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
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
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Business Ourselves
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
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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Failure Writing
Do I dare Disturb the universe?
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Dare Myself World
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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Importance People Understand
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
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
There’s no vocabulary For love within a family, love that’s lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent.
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Deep Family Light Love See Silence Talk
I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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Myself Sea Silence
Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.
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Death Deep Life Man
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

We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us and we drown.

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