The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
T. S. ELIOTIf you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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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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Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.
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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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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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You are the music while the music lasts.
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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 will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet
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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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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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The last act is the greatest treason. To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
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April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.
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In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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