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For you know only a heap of broken images

T. S. Eliot

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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Humor Serious
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
Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past.
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Past Present Science Time
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
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Fear Feeling Grief Music
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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Knowledge Life Live Lost Wisdom
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
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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Acceptance Life Strength Yourself
I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, and I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, and in short, I was afraid.
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Fear Greatness Moments Myself See
music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.
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Deep Last Music
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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Humanity Reality
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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Beautiful Courage Enough Life Man
It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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Rule See Wisdom
Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
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End Friendship Reality Repair
The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man
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Best Evidence Existence Future Hope Library Man
In my end is my beginning.
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Beginning End Myself
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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Fear Myself Yourself

For you know only a heap of broken images

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