Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.
T. S. ELIOTHumor is also a way of saying something serious.
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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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The last act is the greatest treason. To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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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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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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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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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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These fragments I have shored against my ruins
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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us and we drown.
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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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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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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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Do I dare Disturb the universe?
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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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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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This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.
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Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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You are the music while the music lasts.
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An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
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Teach us to care and not to care
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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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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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In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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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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The visible reminder of Invisible Light.
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