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old isn't when you can't, it is when you don't, and thy pain is from within, when without - life is not a plan, it is a chance, intention is a puzzle, breathing in irregular pieces - thy beginning is the end, and thereafter, thy power is no more, than hollow laughter - determination is ego's frustration, and we cheer, silence is not golden, rather beholding to thy fear - practice requires perfection, to save another's life, intervention requires belief, in anything - a story is not permanence, or truth, just a bending of perception, thy infinite youth - to like a thing so much, will diminish its allure, sweat is passions motive, not a reason to quit - there is no clean, we are hypothetical dirt, conflict is not an inner battle, it is indecisions potential - superior is not being better than, it is the realization, of something other than, seeing and believing - faith is not religion, play for truth or pretend, feel nor fear, there is no, the end - -

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