If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
T. S. ELIOTTo 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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Distracted from distraction by distraction
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This love is silent.
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It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.
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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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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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In my end is my beginning.
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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to be the fool you are. We must always take risks. That is our destiny.
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Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.
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The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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These fragments I have shored against my ruins
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Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
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For you know only a heap of broken images
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