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At the beach - time you enjoyed wasting, is not wasted.

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That is not it at all, That is not what I meant, at all.

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Thus with most careful devotion Thus with precise attention To detail, interfering preparation Of that which is already prepared Men lighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding, Reflecting a pocket-torch of observation.

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To justify Christian morality because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth of Christianity, is a very dangerous inversion.

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Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

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The name that no human research can discover-- But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess. When you notice a cat in profound meditation, The reason, I tell you, is always the same: His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name: His ineffable effable Effanineffable Deep and inscrutable singular Name.

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We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.

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I gotta use words to talk to you.

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When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.

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Not less of love, but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the Future as well as the past.

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Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to the complete atheist as to the perfect Christian.

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In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing

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These are only hints and guesses, Hints followed by guesses; and the rest Is prayer, observance, discipline, thought and action.

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Accident is design / And design is accident / In a cloud of unknowing.

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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

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Bad poets imitate, good poets steal.

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To country people Cows are mild, And flee from any stick they throw; But I’m a timid town bred child, And all the cattle seem to know.

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We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.

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To country people Cows are mild, And flee from any stick they throw; But I’m a timid town bred child, And all the cattle seem to know.

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Nothing pleases people more than to go on thinking what they have always thought, and at the same time imagine that they are thinking something new and daring: it combines the advantage of security and the delight of adventure.

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