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These fragments I have shored against my ruins

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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
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
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
Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
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Evil Goodness Intention People World
I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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Myself Sea Silence
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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Fear Myself Yourself
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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Myself Night Reading
There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.
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Death Life Oneself Remember Yourself
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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Growth Poet
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
This love is silent.
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Love One Liner Silence
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
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
Distracted from distraction by distraction
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Distraction One Liner Philosophy
In my end is my beginning.
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Beginning End Myself
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

These fragments I have shored against my ruins

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