April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.
T. S. ELIOTDo I dare Disturb the universe?
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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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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
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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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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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This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.
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There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.
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I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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We do not pass through the same door twice Or return to the door through which we did not pass.
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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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Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
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Teach us to care and not to care
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Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
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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 us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
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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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I have measured out my life in coffee spoons.
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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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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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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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Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
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I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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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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In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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For you know only a heap of broken images
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