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

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  Risk, Curious, Should

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• All time is unreedemable.

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  All Time

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• In life there is not time to grieve long.

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  Grief, Grieving, Long

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.49, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A national culture, if it is to flourish, should be a constellation of cultures, the constitutes of which, benefiting each other, benefit the whole.

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  Culture, Benefits, Should

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Christianity and Culture”, p.140, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.

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  Perfect, Design, Needs

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• I must tell you that I should really like to think there's something wrong with me- Because, if there isn't, then there's something wrong with the world itself-and that's much more frightening! That would be terrible. So I'd rather believe there is something wrong with me, that could be put right.

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  Believe, Thinking, Would Be

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.400, Faber & Faber

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• In the mountains, there you feel free.

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  Mountain, Feels, Waste Land

  The Waste Land l. 17 (1922)

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• We must always take risks. That is our destiny.

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  Destiny, Risk, Our Destiny

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.376, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Men tighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding.

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  Men, Perfect, Confusion

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.239, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My name is only an anagram of toilets.

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  Names, Toilets, Anagrams

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• The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

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  Blood, Ink, Purpose

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• I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.

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  Reading, Winter, Night

  The Waste Land l. 17 (1922)

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• At the still point, there the dance is.

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  Beautiful, Dance, Scene

  'Four Quartets' 'Burnt Norton' (1936) pt. 2

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• In a mind charged with an eager purpose and an unfinished vindictiveness, there is no room for new feelings.

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  Feelings, Mind, Rooms

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• Love compels cruelty To those who do not understand love.

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  Love, Cruelty

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.110, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Destiny ... a word which means more than we can find any definitions for. It is a word which can have no meaning in a mechanical universe: if that which is wound up must run down, what destiny is there in that? Destiny is not necessitarianism, and it is not caprice: it is something essentially meaningful. Each man has his destiny, though some men are undoubtedly "men of destiny" in a sense in which most men are not.

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  Meaningful, Running, Destiny

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• not fare well, but fare forward

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  Wells

  Four Quartets "The Dry Salvages" pt. 3 (1941)

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• No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.

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  Aptitude, Study, Interest

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Essays Ancient and Modern”, p.188, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.

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  Experience, Different, Form

  1941 Four Quartets,'The Dry Salvages', pt.2.

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• Not less of love, but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the Future as well as the past.

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  Love, Past, Desire

  1942 Four Quartets,'Little Gidding', pt.3.

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• The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief.

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  Christian, Prayer, Believe

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• You have learned enough to see that cats are much like you and me.

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  Cat, Like You, Enough

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume II: Practical Cats and Further Verses”, p.32, Faber & Faber

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• Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment.

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  Intense Moments, Burning, Before And After

  Four Quartets "East Coker" pt. 5 (1940)

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• One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate mature poets steal bad poets deface what they take and good poets make it into something better or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique utterly different than that from which it is torn the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time or alien in language or diverse in interest.

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  Art, Unique, Stealing Things

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• It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

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  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Knowledge and Experience in the Philosophy of F.H. Bradley". Book by T. S. Eliot, ch. 1, Columbia University Press (quoting Doctoral dissertation in philosophy; submitted to Harvard in 1916), 1964.

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