We do not pass through the same door twice Or return to the door through which we did not pass.
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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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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Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
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It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
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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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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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I can connect Nothing with nothing
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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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The last act is the greatest treason. To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.
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Teach us to care and not to care
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I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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In my end is my beginning.
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Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
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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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Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.
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So I find words I never thought to speak In streets I never thought I should revisit When I left my body on a distant shore.
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This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.
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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
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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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We don’t actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace.
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For you know only a heap of broken images
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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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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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