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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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A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.
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Talent imitates, but genius steals.
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Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time.
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We do not pass twice through the same door Or return to the door through which we did not pass.
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Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think whatever you want, be sure that is what you want whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.
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It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.
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Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.
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If one has to earn a living, therefore, the safest occupation is that most remote from the arts.
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No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.
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If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby 'it.'
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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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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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In a world of fugitives the one who stays home will seem to be running away
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For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of many deeds are blended so good and evil in the end become confounded.
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The hippopotamus's day Is passed in sleep at night he hunts God works in a mysterious way- The Church can sleep and feed at once.
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The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of literature from Homer and within it the whole of the literature of his own country has a simultaneous existence and composes a simultaneous order.
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
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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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