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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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If you start with a bang, you won't end with a whimper.
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Fare forward, travellers! not escaping from the past Into different lives, or into any future You are not the same people who left that station Or who will arrive at any terminus, While the narrowing rails slide together behind you.
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It is worth while dying, to find out what life is.
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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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Upon the glazen shelves kept watch Matthew and Waldo, guardians of the faith The army of unalterable law.
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No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.
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