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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.

T. S. Eliot

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
Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.
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Garden Memories Rose
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
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
Distracted from distraction by distraction
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Distraction One Liner Philosophy
Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
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End Friendship Reality Repair
We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.
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Book Enough People Reading
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
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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Beginning Deep End Philosophy Start
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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Humor Serious
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
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Inspirational Possible Risk
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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Beyond Escape Experience
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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Ink Literature Poet Purpose
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
Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.
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Death Deep Life Man
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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Knowledge Life Live Lost Wisdom

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