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Then it doesn't Matter that the deaths come in the wrong order. All has been so easily...

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You who were directionless, and thought it would solve everything if you found one, What do you make of this? Just because a thing is imm...

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The mind Is so hospitable, taking in everything...

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Yes, in the long run there is something to be said for these shiftless days, each distilling its drop of poison until the cup is full; there i...

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Silly girls your heads full of boys

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You might as well linger On verandas, enjoying life, knowing The end is essentially unpredictable.

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I could say it's the happiest period of my life. It hasn't got much competition!

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"This is what my learning Teaches," the Aquarian said, "To absorb life through the pores For the life around you is dead."

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Life is beautiful. He who reads that As in the window of some distant, speeding train Knows what he wants, and what will befall.

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At first it was as though you had passed, But then no, I said, he is still here, Forehead refreshed.

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You have original artworks hanging on the walls oh I said edit

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This age-old truth I to thee impart Act according to the dictates of your art...

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We are prisoners of the world's demented sink. The soft enchantments of our years of innocence...

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Some departure from the norm Will occur as time grows more open about it.

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Imagine a painter crucified by his subject!

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There is no going back, For standing still means death, and life is moving on,...

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Is there anything To be serious about beyond this otherness...

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The door is opening. A man you have never seen enters the room. He tells you that it is time to go, but that you may stay,...

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Life is not at all what you might think it to be A simple tale where each thing has its history...

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For later in the vast gloom of cities, only there you learn How the ideas were good only because they had to die,...

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