70+ T. S. Eliot Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

You are the music while the music lasts.
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Last Music Yourself
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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Joke Listen Lonely People
The last act is the greatest treason. To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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Act Greatness Reason Right Wrong
Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past.
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Past Present Science Time
Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.
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Death Deep Life Man
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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Destiny Fools Harm Ourselves Risk Yourself
These fragments I have shored against my ruins
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Myself Pieces Ruin
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us and we drown.
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Deep Dream Fantasy Girl Human Sea Voice Wake Up
It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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Rule See Wisdom
music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.
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Deep Last Music
Do I dare Disturb the universe?
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Dare Myself World
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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Alone Escape Hell Oneself Philosophy Spiritual
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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Be Yourself Feeling Self Love Thinking
We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.
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Book Enough People Reading
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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Knowledge Life Live Lost Wisdom
There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.
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Death Life Oneself Remember Yourself
I have measured out my life in coffee spoons.
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Life Myself
Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
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Deep Love
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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Humanity Reality
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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Beautiful Courage Enough Life Man
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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Deep Family Light Love See Silence Talk
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.
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Fantasy Myself Sing Thinking
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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Beyond Escape Experience
Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
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End Friendship Reality Repair
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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Greatness Learning Let Go Myself
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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Education Himself Interest Learning Ourselves Pursue
The visible reminder of Invisible Light.
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God Light One Liner Prayer

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