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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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The naming of cats is a difficult matter. It isn't just one of your holiday games. You may think at first I'm mad as a hatter. When I tell you a cat must have three different names.
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In a world of fugitives the one who stays home will seem to be running away
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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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My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me. 'Speak to me. Why do you never speak? Speak. 'What are you thinking of? What thinking? What? 'I never know what you are thinking. Think.
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You must not on any account give me credit for being penetrating. I have impressed people that way before, and the result is always disaster.
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For I have known them all already, known them all— Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
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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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Not less of love, but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the Future as well as the past.
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Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
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We shall not cease from exploring, And the end of our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.
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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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Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
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Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third.
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Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think
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War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.
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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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At the still point, there the dance is.
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Talent imitates, genius steals.
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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
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Probably, indeed, the larger part of the labor of an author composing his work is critical labor the labor of sifting, combining, constructing, expunging, correcting, testing. This frightful toil is as much critical as creative.
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