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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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At the beach - time you enjoyed wasting, is not wasted.
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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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I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this bovarysme, the human will to see things as they are not, more clearly than Shakespeare.
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