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T. S. Eliot
Age: 76 †
Born: 1888
Born: September 26
Died: 1965
Died: January 4
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War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.
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The definition of hell is a place where nothing connects with nothing.
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Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think
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Past art is subject to change.
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Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.
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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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Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment.
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Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each pursued for its own sake.
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It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.
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Talent imitates, but genius steals.
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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
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Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
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Philosophy: a purple bullfinch in a lilac tree.
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Every end is a beginning...And every beginning is an end.
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And right action is freedom From past and future also.
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Shape without form, shade without color, Paralyzed force, gesture without motion Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom Remember us-if at all-not as lost Violent souls, but only As the hollow men The stuffed men.
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I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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If one has to earn a living, therefore, the safest occupation is that most remote from the arts.
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Hungry Hatred, will not strive against intelligence self-interest.
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That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before you are contented with what you can desire / Before you know what is left to be desired / And you go on wishing that you could desire / What desire has left behind.
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