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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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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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To make an end is to make a beginning.
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You have to risk going too far to discover just how far you can really go.
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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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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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For I have known them all already, known them all— Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
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Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short, staccato, like modern French prose. The typewriter makes for lucidity, but I am not sure that it encourages subtlety.
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We see the light but see not whence it comes. O Light Invisible, we glorify Thee!
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The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.
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And right action is freedom From past and future also.
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