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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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No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.
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I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.
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Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.
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If you find examples of humanism which are anti-religious, or at least in opposition to the religious faith of the place and time, then such humanism is purely destructive, for it has never found anything to replace what it has destroyed.
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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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In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by the way of dispossession.
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It is not enough to understand what we ought to be, unless we know what we are and we do not understand what we are, unless we know what we ought to be.
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Talent imitates, but genius steals.
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Because I know that time is always time And place is always and only place.
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As a rule, with me an unfinished [idea] is a thing that might as well be rubbed out. It's better, if there's something good in it that I might make use of elsewhere, to leave it at the back of my mind than on paper in a drawer. If I leave it in a drawer it remains the same thing but if it's in the memory it becomes transformed into something else.
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The endless cycle of idea and action, / Endless invention, endless experiment, / Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness / Knowledge of speech, but not of silence / Knowledge of words, and ignorance of The Word.
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Why should men love the Church? Why should they love her laws? She tells them of Life and Death, and of all that they would forget.
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I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this behavior by his attitude towards the result of the behavior arranged by himself, we can be influenced towards behaving in the same way.
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A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything)
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I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat. My Cat is a Lilliecat Hubvously. What a lilliecat it is. There never was such a Lilliecat. Its Name is JELLYORUM and its one Idea is to be Usefull!!
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