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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.

T. S. Eliot

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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Beautiful Courage Enough Life Man
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
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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Acceptance Past
There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet
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People Preparation Time
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
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
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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Growth Poet
Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
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Sanity Suffering World
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
I can connect Nothing with nothing
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Connection Myself One Liner
I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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Myself Sea Silence
I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.
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Myself Photograph Suffering
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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Humor Serious
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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Humanity Reality
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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Exploration Place Time Travel
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
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Business Ourselves

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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