We don’t actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace.
T. S. ELIOTWe don’t actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace.
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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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You are the music while the music lasts.
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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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There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.
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This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.
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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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For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
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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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I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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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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In my end is my beginning.
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I can connect Nothing with nothing
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We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.
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Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
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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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If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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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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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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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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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.
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We do not pass through the same door twice Or return to the door through which we did not pass.
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I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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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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These fragments I have shored against my ruins
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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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