Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past.
T. S. ELIOTThese 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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This love is silent.
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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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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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Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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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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For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
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The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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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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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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Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech
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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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I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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