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Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.

T. S. Eliot

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Deep Knowledge Lost Wisdom
Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.
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Garden Memories Rose
Distracted from distraction by distraction
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Distraction One Liner Philosophy
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
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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Humanity Reality
These fragments I have shored against my ruins
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Myself Pieces Ruin
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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Myself Night Reading
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
This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.
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Joy Moments Oneself Pain
I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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Myself Sea Silence
Do I dare Disturb the universe?
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Dare Myself World
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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Humor Serious
Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
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Evil Goodness Intention People World
I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.
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Greatness Learning Let Go Myself
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
Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.
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Beyond Escape Experience

Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.

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