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T. S. Eliot

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
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
Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past.
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Past Present Science Time
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
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Inspirational Possible Risk
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.
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Education Himself Interest Learning Ourselves Pursue
Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
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End Friendship Reality Repair
Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
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Dance Exception
You are the music while the music lasts.
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Last Music Yourself
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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Fear Myself Yourself
There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet
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People Preparation Time
For you know only a heap of broken images
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Break Photograph Yourself
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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Alone Escape Hell Oneself Philosophy Spiritual
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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Acceptance Past
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.
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Beyond Escape Experience
In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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Decision Time
This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.
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End Theory World

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