To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.
T. S. ELIOTIn my end is my beginning.
More T. S. Eliot Quotes
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Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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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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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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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 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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Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech
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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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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.
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For you know only a heap of broken images
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Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
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Distracted from distraction by distraction
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Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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