We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.
T. S. ELIOTFootfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.
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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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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.
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This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.
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For you know only a heap of broken images
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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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Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech
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I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet
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Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.
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Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.
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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
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We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.
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Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.
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This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.
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