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To become what you are not, behave as you do not.
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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Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.
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The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.
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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.
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The destination cannot be described / You will know very little until you get there / You will journey blind.
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Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove.
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All dash to and fro in motor cars. Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.
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Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third.
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In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.
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I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
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Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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No scheme for a change of society can be made to appear immediately palatable, except by falsehood, until society has become so desperate that it will accept any change.
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Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph.
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I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls ... Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead.
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The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
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The nightingales are singing near The Convent of the Sacred Heart, And sang within the bloody wood When Agamemnon cried aloud, And let their liquid siftings fall To stain the stiff dishonored shroud.
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At the still point, there the dance is.
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The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion.
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