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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.
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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Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity.
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And they write innumerable books being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.
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Talent imitates, but genius steals.
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