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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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Because I know that time is always time and place is always place and only place. And what is actual is actual only for one time. And only for one place. I rejoice that things are as they are.
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Yet with these April sunsets, that somehow recall My buried life, and Paris in the spring, I feel immeasurably at peace, and find the world To be wonderful and youthful afterall
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Talent imitates, but genius steals.
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We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
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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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That is not it at all, That is not what I meant, at all.
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O father, father Gone from us, lost to us, The church lies bereft, Alone, Desecrated, desolated. And the heathen shall build On the ruins Their world without God. I see it. I see it.
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And indeed there will be time to wonder, 'Do I dare?', and 'Do I dare?
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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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If all time is eternally present, all time is unredeemable
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Words strain, crack, and sometime break, under the burden.
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But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline revolution a denial of the permanent things.
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Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
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Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech
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The dripping blood our only drink, The bloody flesh our only food: In spite of which we like to think That we are sound, substantial flesh and blood Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good.
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Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.
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Gin and drugs, dear lady, gin and drugs.
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