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As we grow older, the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living.

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Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

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life is long between the desire and the spasm.

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We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.

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The Rum Turn Tugger is a terrible bore: When you let him in, then he wants to be out; He's always on the wrong side of every door, And as soon as he's at home, then he'd like to get about.

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That is not it at all, That is not what I meant, at all.

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The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

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In our rhythm of earthly life we tire of light. We are glad when the day ends, when the play ends; and ecstasy is too much pain.

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Human kind cannot bear much reality.

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Redeem the time. Redeem the unread vision of a higher dream.

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It takes so many years to learn that one is dead.

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Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

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To make an end is to make a beginning.

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Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?

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Can we only love Something created in our own imaginations? Are we all in fact unloving and unloveable? Then one is alone, and if one is alone Then lover and beloved are equally unreal And the dreamer is no more real than his dreams.

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Shall I part my hair behind Do I dare to eat a peach I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.

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Teach us to care and not to care

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[On The Waste Land:] Various critics have done me the honor to interpret the poem in terms of criticism of the contemporary world, have considered it, indeed, as an important bit of social criticism. To me it was only the relief of a personal and wholly insignificant grouse against life; it is just a piece of rhythmical grumbling.

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There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.

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