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If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

T. S. Eliot

April 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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Death Desire Flower Memories Rain Season Spring
If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
T. S. ELIOT

Knowledge Yourself
Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past.
T. S. ELIOT

Past Present Science Time
It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
T. S. ELIOT

Rule See Wisdom
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Deep Knowledge Lost Wisdom
It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to be the fool you are. We must always take risks. That is our destiny.
T. S. ELIOT

Destiny Fools Harm Ourselves Risk Yourself
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.
T. S. ELIOT

Be Yourself Feeling Self Love Thinking
If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.
T. S. ELIOT

Acceptance Life Strength Yourself
Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
T. S. ELIOT

End Friendship Reality Repair
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
T. S. ELIOT

Ink Literature Poet Purpose
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
T. S. ELIOT

Humanity Reality
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
I can connect Nothing with nothing
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Connection Myself One Liner
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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Knowledge Life Live Lost Wisdom
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.
T. S. ELIOT

Fantasy Myself Sing Thinking
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.
T. S. ELIOT

Exploration Place Time Travel

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