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T. S. Eliot
Age: 76 †
Born: 1888
Born: September 26
Died: 1965
Died: January 4
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From a purely external point of view there is no will and to find will in any phenomenon requires a certain empathy we observe aman's actions and place ourselves partly but not wholly in his position or we act, and place ourselves partly in the position of an outsider.
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Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair-
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The eastern light our spires touch at morning, The light that slants upon our western doors at evening, The twilight over stagnant pools at batflight, Moon light and star light, owl and moth light, Glow-worm glowlight on a grassblade. O Light Invisible, we worship Thee!
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At the beach - time you enjoyed wasting, is not wasted.
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A wrong attitude toward nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude toward God.
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I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.
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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.
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This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.
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The circle of our understanding is a very restricted area.
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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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The greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards though we must remember that whether it is literature or not can be determined only by literary standards.
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O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark, The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant
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Where shall the word be found, where will the word / Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
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If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.
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Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable.
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Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
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You gave me hyacinths first a year ago They called me the hyacinth girl.' —Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden, Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither Living nor dead, and I knew nothing, Looking into the heart of light, the silence. Od' und leer das Meer.
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But what have I, but what have I, my friend, To give you, what can you receive from me? Only the friendship and the sympathy Of one about to reach her journey's end.
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The chief danger about Paris is that it is such a strong stimulant.
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Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third.
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