Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
T. S. ELIOTHumankind cannot bear very much reality.
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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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music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.
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We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.
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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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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
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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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Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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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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There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet
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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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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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Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
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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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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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