Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.
T. S. ELIOTIf you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.
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Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
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Teach us to care and not to care
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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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In my end is my beginning.
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Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity
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The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
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If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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There’s no vocabulary For love within a family, love that’s lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent.
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There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet
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I can connect Nothing with nothing
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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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For you know only a heap of broken images
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Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech
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