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T. S. Eliot

I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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Myself Night Reading
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
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Business Ourselves
Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.
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Death Deep Life Man
If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Knowledge Yourself
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
Distracted from distraction by distraction
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Distraction One Liner Philosophy
In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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Decision Time
There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet
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People Preparation Time
I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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Myself Sea Silence
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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Education Himself Interest Learning Ourselves Pursue
Teach us to care and not to care
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Care One Liner Teaching
We do not pass through the same door twice Or return to the door through which we did not pass.
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Philosophy Place Travel
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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Importance People Understand
Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
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Mess Success
The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man
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Best Evidence Existence Future Hope Library Man
The visible reminder of Invisible Light.
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God Light One Liner Prayer
Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity
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Creation Mental
I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, and I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, and in short, I was afraid.
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Fear Greatness Moments Myself See
Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
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End Friendship Reality Repair
Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech
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Body Lover Need Talk Thinking True Love
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
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
These fragments I have shored against my ruins
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Myself Pieces Ruin
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
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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Bad Enough Possible
I have measured out my life in coffee spoons.
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Life Myself
The last act is the greatest treason. To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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Act Greatness Reason Right Wrong

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