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What a haunting, inescapable riddle life was.


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All but blind In his chambered hole Gropes for worms The four-clawed Mole.

All but blind In his chambered hole Gropes for worms The four-clawed Mole.



All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat.

All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat.



A harvest mouse goes scampering by, With silver claws and silver eye; And moveless fish in the water gleam, By silver reeds in a silver stream.

A harvest mouse goes scampering by, With silver claws and silver eye; And moveless fish in the water gleam, By silver reeds in a silver stream.



After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts - like a Chinese nest of boxes - oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front - in our ancestors, back and back until.

After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts - like a Chinese nest of boxes - oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front - in our ancestors, back and back until.



Once a man strays out of the common herd, he's more likely to meet wolves in the thickets than angels.

Once a man strays out of the common herd, he's more likely to meet wolves in the thickets than angels.



And some win peace who spend The skill of words to sweeten despair Of finding consolation where Life has but one dark end.

And some win peace who spend The skill of words to sweeten despair Of finding consolation where Life has but one dark end.



A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.

A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.



An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.

An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.



For beauty with sorrow Is a burden hard to be borne: The evening light on the foam, and the swans, there; That music, remote, forlorn.

For beauty with sorrow Is a burden hard to be borne: The evening light on the foam, and the swans, there; That music, remote, forlorn.



Slowly, silently, now the moon Walks the night in her silver shoon.

Slowly, silently, now the moon Walks the night in her silver shoon.





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The soles of his shoes are worn the way the edges of erasers become rounded with use. As though he walks around correcting his mistakes.

The soles of his shoes are worn the way the edges of erasers become rounded with use. As though he walks around correcting his mistakes.



I heard you good with them soft lips.. Yeah you know word of mouth.

I heard you good with them soft lips.. Yeah you know word of mouth.



Ignore people who tell you 'you can't' or try to discourage you.

Ignore people who tell you 'you can't' or try to discourage you.



People like you to be something, preferably what they are.

People like you to be something, preferably what they are.



If we didn't have to stand against temptation, we'd never know our own spiritual strength.

If we didn't have to stand against temptation, we'd never know our own spiritual strength.



I want to stop and thank you baby, how sweet it is to be loved by you.

I want to stop and thank you baby, how sweet it is to be loved by you.



Doing the right thing is more important than doing the thing right.

Doing the right thing is more important than doing the thing right.



The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.

The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.



In the West, since the collapse of communism and the fall of the Soviet Union, the one discipline both the official and unofficial cultures have united in casting aside has been history.

In the West, since the collapse of communism and the fall of the Soviet Union, the one discipline both the official and unofficial cultures have united in casting aside has been history.



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