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Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past.

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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
Distracted from distraction by distraction
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Distraction One Liner Philosophy
We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.
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Exploration Place Time Travel
For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.
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Change Language Voice Word
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
Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
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Deep Love
This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.
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End Theory World
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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Growth Poet
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
This love is silent.
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Love One Liner Silence
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
These fragments I have shored against my ruins
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Myself Pieces Ruin
The visible reminder of Invisible Light.
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God Light One Liner Prayer
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
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
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

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