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Teach us to care and not to care

T. S. Eliot

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
I can connect Nothing with nothing
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Connection Myself One Liner
Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
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Dance Exception
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
This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.
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End Theory World
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
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
If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Knowledge Yourself
Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
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Deep Love
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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Failure Writing
It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to be the fool you are. We must always take risks. That is our destiny.
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Destiny Fools Harm Ourselves Risk Yourself
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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Importance People Understand
Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.
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Death Deep Life Man
It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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Rule See Wisdom
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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End Ourselves Place Start Time Travel
The last act is the greatest treason. To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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Act Greatness Reason Right Wrong

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