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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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Because I know that time is always time And place is always and only place.
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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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That was my way of putting it-not very satisfactory: A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion, Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle With words and meanings.
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No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be: am an attendant lord, one that will do to swell a progress, start a scene or two, advise the prince.
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Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
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The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution.
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If all time is eternally present, all time is unredeemable
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