Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity
T. S. ELIOTAn 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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In my end is my beginning.
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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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We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.
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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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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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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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These fragments I have shored against my ruins
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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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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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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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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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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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I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.
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The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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