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As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it, until her teeth were only accidental stars with a talent for squad-drill.
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 river itself has no beginning or end. In its beginning, it is not yet the river in the end it is no longer the river. What we call the headwaters is only a selection from among the innumerable sources which flow together to compose it. At what point in its course does the Mississippi become what the Mississippi means?
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It's harder to confess the sin that no one believes in Than the crime that everyone can appreciate. For the crime is in relation to the law And the sin is in relation to the sinner.
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Probably, indeed, the larger part of the labor of an author composing his work is critical labor the labor of sifting, combining, constructing, expunging, correcting, testing. This frightful toil is as much critical as creative.
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O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark, The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant
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Not less of love, but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the Future as well as the past.
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Gin and drugs, dear lady, gin and drugs.
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In the end is my beginning.
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Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
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The chief danger about Paris is that it is such a strong stimulant.
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The destination cannot be described / You will know very little until you get there / You will journey blind.
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The majority of mankind is lazyminded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith.
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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.
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