Tag: T. S. Eliot
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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
T. S. Eliot
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We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
T. S. Eliot
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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
T. S. Eliot
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My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.
T. S. Eliot
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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.
T. S. Eliot
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It’s not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.
T. S. Eliot
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It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.
T. S. Eliot
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So the lover must struggle for words.
T. S. Eliot
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And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.
T. S. Eliot
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Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.
T. S. Eliot