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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

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
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Inspirational Possible Risk
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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Greatness Learning Let Go Myself
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
If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Knowledge Yourself
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
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Business Ourselves
Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
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Deep Love
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
Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.
T. S. ELIOT

Garden Memories Rose
For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.
T. S. ELIOT

Change Language Voice Word
This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.
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End Theory World
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.
T. S. ELIOT

Beyond Escape Experience
We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.
T. S. ELIOT

Book Enough People Reading
Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
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Mess Success
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
For I have known them all already, known them all—Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
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Evening Life Morning Myself
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

Fear Greatness Moments Myself See

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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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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