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

T. S. Eliot

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

Knowledge Yourself
Distracted from distraction by distraction
T. S. ELIOT

Distraction One Liner Philosophy
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
T. S. ELIOT

Business Ourselves
music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.
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Deep Last Music
In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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Decision Time
There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.
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Death Life Oneself Remember Yourself
You are the music while the music lasts.
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Last Music Yourself
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
I can connect Nothing with nothing
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Connection Myself One Liner
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
We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.
T. S. ELIOT

Book Enough People Reading
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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Importance People Understand
This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.
T. S. ELIOT

End Theory World
This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.
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Joy Moments Oneself Pain
Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
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Mess Success
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.
T. S. ELIOT

Education Himself Interest Learning Ourselves Pursue

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