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The last act is the greatest treason. To do the right deed for the wrong reason.

T. S. Eliot

If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Knowledge Yourself
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
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
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
I have measured out my life in coffee spoons.
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Life Myself
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
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 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
These fragments I have shored against my ruins
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Myself Pieces Ruin
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
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
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Election Fake Live Peace Politics
In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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Decision Time
In my end is my beginning.
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Beginning End Myself
music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.
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Deep Last Music
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
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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Humanity Reality

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