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Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time.
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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No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his own personality.
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Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.
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Talent imitates, genius steals.
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I do not approve the extermination of the enemy the policy of exterminating or, as it is barbarously said, liquidating enemies, is one of the most alarming developments of modern war and peace, from the point of view of those who desire the survival
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The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.
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Every nation, every race, has not only its own creative, but its own critical turn of mind and is even more oblivious of the shortcomings and limitations of its critical habits than of those of its creative genius.
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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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In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.
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What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author and indeed, in the course of time a poet may become merely reader in respect to his own works, forgetting his original meaning.
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If time and space, as sages say, Are things which cannot be, The sun which does not feel decay No greater is than we. So why, Love, should we ever pray To live a century? The butterfly that lives a day Has lived eternity.
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All time is eternal, moving inexorably toward an end which we believe is a result of our actions, but over which our control is mere illusion.
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The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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Hurry up, please, its time.
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The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.
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We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in but its fitting in is a test of its value - a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity.
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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 majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.
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