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This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.

T. S. Eliot

Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
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End Friendship Reality Repair
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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Garden Memories Rose
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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Humor Serious
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
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. ELIOT

Deep Family Light Love See Silence Talk
Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity
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Creation Mental
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.
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Evening Life Morning Myself
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?
T. S. ELIOT

Knowledge Life Live Lost Wisdom
You are the music while the music lasts.
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Last Music Yourself
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
For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.
T. S. ELIOT

Change Language Voice Word
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.
T. S. ELIOT

Alone Escape Hell Oneself Philosophy Spiritual
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
The visible reminder of Invisible Light.
T. S. ELIOT

God Light One Liner Prayer
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
T. S. ELIOT

Importance People Understand
In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
T. S. ELIOT

Decision Time

This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.

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