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T. S. Eliot

The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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Ink Literature Poet Purpose
In my end is my beginning.
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Beginning End Myself
Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
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Dance Exception
This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.
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End Theory World
I have measured out my life in coffee spoons.
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Life Myself
This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.
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Joy Moments Oneself Pain
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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Education Himself Interest Learning Ourselves Pursue
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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Deep Dream Fantasy Girl Human Sea Voice Wake Up
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.
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Fantasy Myself Sing Thinking
Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.
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Death Deep Life Man
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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Deep Family Light Love See Silence Talk
Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.
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Beyond Escape Experience
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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Humanity Reality
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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Greatness Learning Let Go Myself
Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
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Sanity Suffering World
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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Bad Enough Possible

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