T. S. Eliot Quotes, Cat Quotes

With cats, some say, one rule is true: Don't speak till you are spoken to.

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Words strain, crack, and sometime break, under the burden.

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What have we given? My friend, blood shaking my heart The awful daring of a moment's surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract By this, and this only, we have existed.

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Art is the escape from personality.

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War among men defiles this world.

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What have we given? My friend, blood shaking my heart The awful daring of a moment's surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract By this, and this only, we have existed.

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A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.

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The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.

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In the life of one man, never The same time returns.

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There is, it seems to us, At best, only a limited value In the knowledge derived from experience.

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Simple and faithless as a smile and shake of the hand.

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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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Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air The air which is now thoroughly small and dry Smaller and dryer than the will Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still

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We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.

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Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no; but expression is only altered by a man of genius.

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The immature poet imitates, the mature poet plagiarizes.

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We have all our private terrors, our particular shadows, our secret fears. We are afraid in a fear which we cannot face, which none understands, and our hearts are torn from us, our brains unskinned like the layers of an onion, ourselves the last.

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A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, The very dead of winter.

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Because I know that time is always time and place is always place and only place. And what is actual is actual only for one time. And only for one place. I rejoice that things are as they are.

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It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty.

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