Teach us to care and not to care
T. S. ELIOTFor you know only a heap of broken images
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I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.
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An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
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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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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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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
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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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It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
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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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What is hell? Hell is oneself. Hell is alone, the other figures in it Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from And nothing to escape to. One is always alone.
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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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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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Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech
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