Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
T. S. ELIOTMen dislike being awakened from their death in life.
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This love is silent.
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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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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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The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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In my end is my beginning.
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It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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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 last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.
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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.
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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.
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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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There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.
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