I have measured out my life in coffee spoons.
T. S. ELIOTHumankind cannot bear very much reality.
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An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
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The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man
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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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Books. Cats. Life is good.
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Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
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For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.
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I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.
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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
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Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.
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Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech
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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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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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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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