The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
T. S. ELIOTI will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
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It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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The last act is the greatest treason. To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.
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I can connect Nothing with nothing
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The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man
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You are the music while the music lasts.
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I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.
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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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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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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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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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I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.
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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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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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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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We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.
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There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.
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For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.
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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.
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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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Distracted from distraction by distraction
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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
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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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