If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.
T. S. ELIOTEvery 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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There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.
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For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
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These fragments I have shored against my ruins
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Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity
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This love is silent.
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April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.
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We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.
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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.
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This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.
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Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.
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