If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.
T. S. ELIOTThere is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.
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Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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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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These fragments I have shored against my ruins
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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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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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This love is silent.
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music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.
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We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.
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This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.
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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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The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man
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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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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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In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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