Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
T. S. ELIOTSo I find words I never thought to speak In streets I never thought I should revisit When I left my body on a distant shore.
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If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to be the fool you are. We must always take risks. That is our destiny.
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We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.
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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
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Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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Do I dare Disturb the universe?
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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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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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We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.
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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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Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.
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Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.
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I can connect Nothing with nothing
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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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It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
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For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
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Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.
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The last act is the greatest treason. To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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We do not pass through the same door twice Or return to the door through which we did not pass.
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Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.
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