Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
T. S. ELIOTMost of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
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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.
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The last act is the greatest treason. To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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What is hell? Hell is oneself. Hell is alone, the other figures in it Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from And nothing to escape to. One is always alone.
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Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.
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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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The visible reminder of Invisible Light.
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Do I dare Disturb the universe?
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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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I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.
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There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.
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This love is silent.
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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.
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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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Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
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Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
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So I find words I never thought to speak In streets I never thought I should revisit When I left my body on a distant shore.
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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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Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
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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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These fragments I have shored against my ruins
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In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
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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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music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.
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