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This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.

T. S. Eliot

No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.
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Education Himself Interest Learning Ourselves Pursue
Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
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Evil Goodness Intention People World
Teach us to care and not to care
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Care One Liner Teaching
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
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Fear Feeling Grief Music
April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.
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Death Desire Flower Memories Rain Season Spring
The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man
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Best Evidence Existence Future Hope Library Man
It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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Rule See Wisdom
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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Humanity Reality
In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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Decision Time
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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Failure Writing
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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Joke Listen Lonely People
You are the music while the music lasts.
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Last Music Yourself
I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.
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Greatness Learning Let Go Myself
I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, and I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, and in short, I was afraid.
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Fear Greatness Moments Myself See
The last act is the greatest treason. To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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Act Greatness Reason Right Wrong
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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Garden Memories Rose

This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.

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