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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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If we all were judged according to the consequences Of all our words and deeds, beyond the intention And beyond our limited understanding Of ourselves and others, we should all be condemned.
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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 purpose of a Christian education would not be merely to make men and women pious Christians: a system which aimed too rigidly at this end alone would become only obscurantist. A Christian education must primarily teach people to be able to think in Christian categories.
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Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment.
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The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.
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They don't understand what it is to be awake, / To be living on several planes at once / Though one cannot speak with several voices at once.
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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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The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.
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For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it!
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