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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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The last act is the greatest treason. To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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Act Greatness Reason Right Wrong
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 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
If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.
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Acceptance Life Strength Yourself
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
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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Acceptance Past
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Communication Poetry Understand
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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Deep Dream Fantasy Girl Human Sea Voice Wake Up
Distracted from distraction by distraction
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Distraction One Liner Philosophy
Do I dare Disturb the universe?
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Dare Myself World
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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Fear Myself Yourself
We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.
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Book Enough People Reading
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
Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity
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Creation Mental
Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
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Sanity Suffering World
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

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