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Neither way is better. / Both ways are necessary. / It is also necessary / To make a choice between them.
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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And they write innumerable books being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.
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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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That was my way of putting it-not very satisfactory: A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion, Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle With words and meanings.
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I am tired with my own life and the lives of those after me, I am dying in my own death and the deaths of those after me.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity.
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I shall not want Honor in Heaven For I shall meet Sir Philip Sidney And have talk with Coriolanus And other heroes of that kidney.
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Why should men love the Church? Why should they love her laws? She tells them of Life and Death, and of all that they would forget.
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Cats must have three names-an everyday name, such as Peter a more particular, dignified name, such as Quaxo, Bombalurina, or Jellylorum and, thirdly, the name the cat thinks up for himself, his deep and inscrutable singular Name.
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In my beginning is my end.
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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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When the Stranger says: What is the meaning of this city? Do you huddle close together because you love each other? What will you answer? We all dwell together To make money from each other? or This is a community? Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger. Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions.
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To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an answer.
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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Whatever you do, don't whimper, but take the consequences.
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In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.
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Hungry Hatred, will not strive against intelligence self-interest.
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We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are doing when we apeal to those of others. This is very difficult, because our own prejudice and emotional bias always seems to us so rational.
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I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
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