I have measured out my life in coffee spoons.
T. S. ELIOTFor 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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Books. Cats. Life is good.
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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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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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I can connect Nothing with nothing
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The last act is the greatest treason. To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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Distracted from distraction by distraction
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Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
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In my end is my beginning.
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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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If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.
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The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man
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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
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