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Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.

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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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Humanity Reality
The visible reminder of Invisible Light.
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God Light One Liner Prayer
This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.
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Joy Moments Oneself Pain
This love is silent.
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Love One Liner Silence
Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
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Deep Love
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
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
There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet
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People Preparation Time
Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
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Dance Exception
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
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
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
If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Knowledge Yourself
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
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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Failure Writing
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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Fear Myself Yourself
You are the music while the music lasts.
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Last Music Yourself
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
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
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
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Inspirational Possible Risk
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
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
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Business Ourselves
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
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
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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Humor Serious
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
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

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