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For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it!
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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Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to the complete atheist as to the perfect Christian.
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Light Light The visible reminder of Invisible Light.
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The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre - To be redeemed from fire by fire.
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