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Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past.

T. S. Eliot

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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Joke Listen Lonely People
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
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Inspirational Possible Risk
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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Decision Time Vision Yourself
This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.
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Joy Moments Oneself Pain
For you know only a heap of broken images
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Break Photograph Yourself
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Deep Knowledge Lost Wisdom
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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Beyond Escape Experience
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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Myself Night Reading
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Communication Poetry Understand
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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Greatness Learning Let Go Myself
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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Importance People Understand
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
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Business Ourselves
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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Education Himself Interest Learning Ourselves Pursue
In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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Decision Time
If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Knowledge Yourself
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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Death Desire Flower Memories Rain Season Spring

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