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All time is eternal, moving inexorably toward an end which we believe is a result of our actions, but over which our control is mere illusion.
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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Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each pursued for its own sake.
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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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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.
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From a purely external point of view there is no will and to find will in any phenomenon requires a certain empathy we observe aman's actions and place ourselves partly but not wholly in his position or we act, and place ourselves partly in the position of an outsider.
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Nothing pleases people more than to go on thinking what they have always thought, and at the same time imagine that they are thinking something new and daring: it combines the advantage of security and the delight of adventure.
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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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We must learn to suffer more.
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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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I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.
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Not less of love, but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the Future as well as the past.
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