For I have known them all already, known them all—Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
T. S. ELIOTMen dislike being awakened from their death in 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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music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.
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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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The last act is the greatest treason. To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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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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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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Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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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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There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.
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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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We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.
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I have measured out my life in coffee spoons.
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Distracted from distraction by distraction
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Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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