I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
T. S. ELIOTTo 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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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
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Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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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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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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Do I dare Disturb the universe?
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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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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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For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.
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The last act is the greatest treason. To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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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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Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
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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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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 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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This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.
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Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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The visible reminder of Invisible Light.
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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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Books. Cats. Life is good.
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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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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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Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity
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Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.
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It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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