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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.
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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If you find examples of humanism which are anti-religious, or at least in opposition to the religious faith of the place and time, then such humanism is purely destructive, for it has never found anything to replace what it has destroyed.
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To make an end is to make a beginning.
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In a world of fugitives the one who stays home will seem to be running away
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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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Here between the hither and the farther shore While time is withdrawn, consider the future And the past with an equal mind.
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A people without history Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern Of timeless moments.
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I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, and I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, and in short, I was afraid.
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He had a mind so fine that no idea could violate it
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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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Shape without form, shade without color, Paralyzed force, gesture without motion Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom Remember us-if at all-not as lost Violent souls, but only As the hollow men The stuffed men.
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The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
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