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I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.
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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When the gods know that a god hath fallen, With this kindly feeling They do encourage him-- Be thou a god again and again.
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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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For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of many deeds are blended so good and evil in the end become confounded.
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Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion.
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Immature poets imitate mature poets steal bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.
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time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.
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I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this bovarysme, the human will to see things as they are not, more clearly than Shakespeare.
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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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As a rule, with me an unfinished [idea] is a thing that might as well be rubbed out. It's better, if there's something good in it that I might make use of elsewhere, to leave it at the back of my mind than on paper in a drawer. If I leave it in a drawer it remains the same thing but if it's in the memory it becomes transformed into something else.
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Talent imitates, but genius steals.
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The chief danger about Paris is that it is such a strong stimulant.
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Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.
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Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.
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Writing every day is a way of keeping the engine running, and then something good may come out of it.
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It is impossible to say just what I mean!
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No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his own personality.
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Whatever you do, don't whimper, but take the consequences.
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