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.
T. S. ELIOTThe very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man
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Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
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You are the music while the music lasts.
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I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.
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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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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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We do not pass through the same door twice Or return to the door through which we did not pass.
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Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity
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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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music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.
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If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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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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This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.
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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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