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.
T. S. ELIOTI read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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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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So I find words I never thought to speak In streets I never thought I should revisit When I left my body on a distant shore.
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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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If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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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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Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
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For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
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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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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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This love is silent.
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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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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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