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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 believe the moment of birth Is when we have knowledge of death I believe the season of birth Is the season of sacrifice.
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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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In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by the way of dispossession.
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Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable.
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In life there is not time to grieve long.
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The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.
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If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby 'it.'
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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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We ask only to be reassured About the noises in the cellar And the window that should not have been open
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i will show you fear in a handful of dust. t.s. eliot 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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To make an end is to make a beginning.
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