There’s no vocabulary For love within a family, love that’s lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent.
T. S. ELIOTThese fragments I have shored against my ruins
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We 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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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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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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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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What is hell? Hell is oneself. Hell is alone, the other figures in it Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from And nothing to escape to. One is always alone.
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Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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Distracted from distraction by distraction
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I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.
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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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Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
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Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
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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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We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.
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The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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The last act is the greatest treason. To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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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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You are the music while the music lasts.
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The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man
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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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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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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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Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.
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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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