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.
T. S. ELIOTTime 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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We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.
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Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past.
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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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Footfalls 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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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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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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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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Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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This love is silent.
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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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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
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The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.
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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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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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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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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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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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Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
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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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music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.
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Do I dare Disturb the universe?
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I have measured out my life in coffee spoons.
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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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