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It is impossible to say just what I mean!
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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A people without history Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern Of timeless moments.
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To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an answer.
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No generation is interested in art in quite the same way as any other each generation, like each individual, brings to the contemplation of art its own categories of appreciation, makes its own demands upon art, and has its own uses for art.
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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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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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And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells.
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All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.
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The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless. The houses are all gone under the sea. The dancers are all gone under the hill.
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For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it!
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