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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.

T. S. Eliot

If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Knowledge Yourself
Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
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Deep Love
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
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.
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Fantasy Myself Sing Thinking
For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.
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Change Language Voice Word
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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Bad Enough Possible
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
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
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Business Ourselves
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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Deep Family Light Love See Silence Talk
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
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Fear Feeling Grief Music
music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.
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Deep Last Music
We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.
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Book Enough People Reading
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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Exploration Place Time Travel
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
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

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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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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