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The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

T. S. Eliot

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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Deep Family Light Love See Silence Talk
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
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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Acceptance Life Strength Yourself
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
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Inspirational Possible Risk
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
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Election Fake Live Peace Politics
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Communication Poetry Understand
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.
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Beyond Escape Experience
We do not pass through the same door twice Or return to the door through which we did not pass.
T. S. ELIOT

Philosophy Place Travel
Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
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Evil Goodness Intention People World
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
T. S. ELIOT

Fear Myself Yourself
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.
T. S. ELIOT

Rule See Wisdom
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
T. S. ELIOT

Myself Night Reading
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
Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
T. S. ELIOT

Deep Love
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.
T. S. ELIOT

Beautiful Courage Enough Life Man

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