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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
T. S. Eliot
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T. S. Eliot
Age: 76 †
Born: 1888
Born: September 26
Died: 1965
Died: January 4
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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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In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.
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We shall not cease from exploring, And the end of our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.
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That was my way of putting it-not very satisfactory: A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion, Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle With words and meanings.
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And they write innumerable books being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.
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The work of creation is never without travail.
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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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Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to the complete atheist as to the perfect Christian.
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To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an answer.
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What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author and indeed, in the course of time a poet may become merely reader in respect to his own works, forgetting his original meaning.
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Fare forward, travellers! not escaping from the past Into different lives, or into any future You are not the same people who left that station Or who will arrive at any terminus, While the narrowing rails slide together behind you.
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We see the light but see not whence it comes. O Light Invisible, we glorify Thee!
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To become what you are not, behave as you do not.
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Past art is subject to change.
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The naming of cats is a difficult matter. It isn't just one of your holiday games. You may think at first I'm mad as a hatter. When I tell you a cat must have three different names.
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The circle of our understanding is a very restricted area.
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Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.
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I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls ... Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead.
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My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.
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When the whole world is running headlong towards the precipice, one who walks in the opposite direction is looked at as being crazy.
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