T. S. Eliot Quotes, Destiny Quotes, Risk Quotes

We must always take risks. That is our destiny.

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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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I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, and I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, and in short, I was afraid.

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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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One starts an action simply because one must do something.

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He laughed like an irresponsible foetus.

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Art is the escape from personality.

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

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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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Past art is subject to change.

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Men tighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding.

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To believe in the supernatural is not simply to believe that after living a successful, material, and fairly virtuous life here one will continue to exist in the best-possible substitute for this world, or that after living a starved and stunted life here one will be compensated with all the good things one has gone without: it is to believe that the supernatural is the greatest reality here and now.

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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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Paint me the bold anfractuous rocks Faced by the snarled and yelping seas.

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Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended / Marks the place where a story ended.

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For you know only a heap of broken images

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

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Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.

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Good poets borrow, great poets steal

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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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