Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past.
T. S. ELIOTOf lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech
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The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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These fragments I have shored against my ruins
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I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.
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We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.
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For you know only a heap of broken images
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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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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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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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So 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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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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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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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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What is hell? Hell is oneself. Hell is alone, the other figures in it Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from And nothing to escape to. One is always alone.
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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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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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There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.
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Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity
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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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We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.
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Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
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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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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
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Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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