T. S. Eliot Quotes, Lying Quotes, Knowledge Quotes

To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an answer.

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Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.

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When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience ?in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes.

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People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.

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Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity.

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Here between the hither and the farther shore While time is withdrawn, consider the future And the past with an equal mind.

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The old should be explorers, be curious, risk transgression, explore oldness itself.

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Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think

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If time and space, as sages say, Are things which cannot be, The sun which does not feel decay No greater is than we. So why, Love, should we ever pray To live a century? The butterfly that lives a day Has lived eternity.

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Fading, fading: strength beyond hope and despair climbing the third stair. Lord, I am not worthy Lord, I am not worthy but speak the word only.

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Here were decent godless people; Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls.

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We must learn to suffer more.

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The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is incarnation. Here the impossible union of spheres of existence is actual. Here the past and future are conquered and reconciled.

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Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications.

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I say to you: Make perfect your will. / I say: take no thought of the harvest, / But only of proper sowing.

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Probably, indeed, the larger part of the labor of an author composing his work is critical labor; the labor of sifting, combining, constructing, expunging, correcting, testing. This frightful toil is as much critical as creative.

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And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you I will show you fear in a handful of dust

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It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having passed one's childhood beside the big river, which is incommunicable to those people who have not. I consider myself fortunate to have been born here, rather than in Boston, or New York, or London.

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…Forgive us, O Lord, we acknowledge ourselves as type of the common man, Of the men and women who shut the door and sit by the fire; Who fear the blessing of God, the loneliness of the night of God, the surrender required, the deprivation inflicted; Who fear the injustice of men less than the justice of God; Who fear the hand at the window, the fire in the thatch, the fist in the tavern, the push into the canal, Less than we fear the love of God.

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We should not confuse information with knowledge.

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