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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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I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls ... Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead.
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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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For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it!
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and now you live dispersed on ribbon roads, And no man knows or cares who is his neighbor Unless his neighbor makes too much disturbance, But all dash to and fro in motor cars, Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.
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All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.
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In a world of fugitives the one who stays home will seem to be running away
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At the still point, there the dance is.
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In life there is not time to grieve long.
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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.
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Men have left GOD not for other gods, they say, but for no God and this has never happened before.
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You will find that you survive humiliation. And that's an experience of incalculable value.
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It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.
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All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths they become facts, or at best, part of the public character or at worst, catchwords.
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When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.
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Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.
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Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
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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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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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