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Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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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The nightingales are singing near The Convent of the Sacred Heart, And sang within the bloody wood When Agamemnon cried aloud, And let their liquid siftings fall To stain the stiff dishonored shroud.
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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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Because I know that time is always time and place is always place and only place. And what is actual is actual only for one time. And only for one place. I rejoice that things are as they are.
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If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.
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Cats must have three names-an everyday name, such as Peter a more particular, dignified name, such as Quaxo, Bombalurina, or Jellylorum and, thirdly, the name the cat thinks up for himself, his deep and inscrutable singular Name.
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Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it.
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My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me. 'Speak to me. Why do you never speak? Speak. 'What are you thinking of? What thinking? What? 'I never know what you are thinking. Think.
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For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it!
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In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.
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That is not it at all, That is not what I meant, at all.
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It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.
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Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.
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There is no escape from metre there is only mastery.
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Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no but expression is only altered by a man of genius.
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Where is the Life we lost in living?
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