If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.
T. S. ELIOTThere 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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If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity
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We do not pass through the same door twice Or return to the door through which we did not pass.
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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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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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Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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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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Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
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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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Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past.
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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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Distracted from distraction by distraction
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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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We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.
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