The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
T. S. ELIOTApril is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.
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If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.
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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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Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past.
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The last act is the greatest treason. To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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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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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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These fragments I have shored against my ruins
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Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
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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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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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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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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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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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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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