70+ T. S. Eliot Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

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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Absence Death Fade Fear Ourselves
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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Importance People Understand
We do not pass through the same door twice Or return to the door through which we did not pass.
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Philosophy Place Travel
Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
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Mess Success
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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Decision Time Vision Yourself
Books. Cats. Life is good.
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Book Goodness Life
Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity
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Creation Mental
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
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Fear Feeling Grief Music
In my end is my beginning.
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Beginning End Myself
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Communication Poetry Understand
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Deep Knowledge Lost Wisdom
Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
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Sanity Suffering World
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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Bad Enough Possible
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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Humor Serious
There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet
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People Preparation Time
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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Acceptance Past
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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Election Fake Live Peace Politics
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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Growth Poet
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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Beginning Deep End Philosophy Start
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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Failure Writing
For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.
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Change Language Voice Word
Distracted from distraction by distraction
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Distraction One Liner Philosophy
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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Myself Night Reading
Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
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Evil Goodness Intention People World
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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Fear Myself Yourself
Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
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Dance Exception
We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.
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Exploration Place Time Travel

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