Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
T. S. ELIOTThe purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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We do not pass through the same door twice Or return to the door through which we did not pass.
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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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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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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.
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Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
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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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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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There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.
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This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.
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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?
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No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.
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