There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet
T. S. ELIOTHumankind cannot bear very much reality.
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These fragments I have shored against my ruins
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It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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I can connect Nothing with nothing
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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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Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past.
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I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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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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To 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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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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Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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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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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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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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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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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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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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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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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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Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
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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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Do I dare Disturb the universe?
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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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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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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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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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