I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
T. S. ELIOTSuccess is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
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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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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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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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In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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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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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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There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet
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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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Do I dare Disturb the universe?
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Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.
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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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Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past.
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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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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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I have measured out my life in coffee spoons.
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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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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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Distracted from distraction by distraction
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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.
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If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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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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For I have known them all already, known them all—Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
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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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