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

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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
Distracted from distraction by distraction
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Distraction One Liner Philosophy
Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.
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Be Yourself Feeling Self Love Thinking
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
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
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
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 is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.
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Joy Moments Oneself Pain
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
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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Importance People Understand
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
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
This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.
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End Theory World
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
Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
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Dance Exception
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
This love is silent.
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Love One Liner Silence
These fragments I have shored against my ruins
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Myself Pieces Ruin
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
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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Failure Writing
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Knowledge Life Live Lost Wisdom
Teach us to care and not to care
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Care One Liner Teaching
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
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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Bad Enough Possible
For you know only a heap of broken images
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Break Photograph Yourself
We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.
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Book Enough People Reading

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