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. ELIOTWe shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.
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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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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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These fragments I have shored against my ruins
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Distracted from distraction by distraction
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I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech
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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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The last act is the greatest treason. To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
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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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Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
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Teach us to care and not to care
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We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.
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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
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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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This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.
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I have measured out my life in coffee spoons.
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This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.
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Books. Cats. Life is good.
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The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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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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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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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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