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In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by the way of dispossession.
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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To men of a certain type The suspicion that they are incapable of loving Is as disturbing to their self-esteem As, in cruder men, the fear of impotence.
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We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together...
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