For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
T. S. ELIOTApril 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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The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man
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Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
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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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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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In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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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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I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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I can connect Nothing with nothing
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If 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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Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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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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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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