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Because I know that time is always time And place is always and only place.
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 last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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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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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom, the work is likely to sprawl.
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