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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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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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And right action is freedom From past and future also.
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Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still. Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death Pray for us now and at the hour of our death.
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Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.
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