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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: identity
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”
    ― Friedrich W. Nietzsche
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they dont deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things. I dont recall that I ever give the good Lord all that much cause to smile on me. But he did.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
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    Ezra Pound
    “Literature is news that stays news.”
    ― Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading
    tags: books, literature, reading
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    Ezra Pound
    “Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding.”
    ― Ezra Pound
    tags: education, homeschool, homeschooling, learning
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    Ezra Pound
    “No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.”
    ― Ezra Pound
    tags: reading
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    Ezra Pound
    “A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.”
    ― Ezra Pound
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    Ezra Pound
    “Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, squares, and the like, but for the human emotions. If one has a mind which inclines to magic rather than science, one will prefer to speak of these equations as spells or incantations; it sounds more arcane, mysterious, recondite.”
    ― Ezra Pound
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    Ezra Pound
    “Rhythm must have meaning.”
    ― Ezra Pound
    tags: ezra-pound, poetry, prosody
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    Ezra Pound
    “If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good”
    ― Ezra Pound
    tags: controversy, courage, criticism, intellectuals, opinion, taboos, thought, writing
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    Ezra Pound
    “The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.”
    ― Ezra Pound
    tags: art, artist, beginning, creation, discovery
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    Ezra Pound
    “What thou lovest well remains,

    the rest is dross

    What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee

    What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage”
    ― Ezra Pound, The Pisan Cantos
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    Ezra Pound
    “This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.”
    ― Ezra Pound
    tags: books, reading, writing
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    “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
    ― Harry Crosby, Transit of Venus
    tags: poetry
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    T.S. Eliot
    “This is the way the world ends
    Not with a bang but a whimper.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: apocalypse, despair, poetry
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    T.S. Eliot
    “For last year's words belong to last year's language
    And next year's words await another voice.”
    ― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
    tags: language, new-year, voice, words
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    T.S. Eliot
    “To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.”
    ― T.S. Eliot, The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism
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    T.S. Eliot
    “We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.”
    ― T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party
    tags: relationships
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    T.S. Eliot
    “I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
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    T.S. Eliot
    “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.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: hell, loneliness
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    T.S. Eliot
    “You are the music while the music lasts.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
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    T.S. Eliot
    “If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: inspirational
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    T.S. Eliot
    “Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.”
    ― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
    tags: missed-chances
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    Heraclitus
    “Time is a game played beautifully by children.”
    ― Heraclitus, Fragments
    tags: fragment-52, games, heraclitus, leisure, philosophy, play, time, wisdom
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    Heraclitus
    “Even a soul submerged in sleep
    is hard at work and helps
    make something of the world.”
    ― Heraclitus, Fragments
    tags: heraclitus, philosophy, sleep, wisdom
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    Heraclitus
    “The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny - it is the light that guides your way.”
    ― Heraclitus
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    Heraclitus
    “The Only Thing That Is Constant Is Change -”
    ― Heraclitus
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