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“We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.”
― The Cocktail Party
― The Cocktail Party
“I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.”
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“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
― Transit of Venus
― Transit of Venus
“Humankind cannot bear very much reality.”
― Four Quartets
― Four Quartets
“This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.”
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Not with a bang but a whimper.”
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