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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.

T. S. Eliot

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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Alone Escape Hell Oneself Philosophy Spiritual
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
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
Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past.
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Past Present Science Time
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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Myself Photograph Suffering
music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.
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Deep Last Music
Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
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Sanity Suffering World
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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Election Fake Live Peace Politics
Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
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Dance Exception
If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Knowledge Yourself
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
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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Decision Time Vision Yourself
For you know only a heap of broken images
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Break Photograph Yourself
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
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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Be Yourself Feeling Self Love Thinking
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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Ink Literature Poet Purpose

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