813 Quotes by T. S. Eliot
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Distracted from distraction by distraction
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I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
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Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.
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Here between the hither and the farther shore While time is withdrawn, consider the future And the past with an equal mind.
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Accident is design / And design is accident / In a cloud of unknowing.
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Whatever you do, don't whimper, but take the consequences.
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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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Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.
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