I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

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The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man

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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

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This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.

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To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.

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Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.

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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.

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You are the music while the music lasts.

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Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

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