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“We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.”
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“Humor is also a way of saying something serious.”
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“I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat.”
― Four Quartets
― Four Quartets
“In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not.”
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“For I have known them all already, known them all -
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.
So how should I presume?
And I have known the eyes already, known them all -
The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase,
And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin,
When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall,
Then how should I begin
To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways?
And how should I presume?”
― T.S. Eliot Reads: The Wasteland, Four Quartets and Other Poems
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.
So how should I presume?
And I have known the eyes already, known them all -
The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase,
And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin,
When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall,
Then how should I begin
To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways?
And how should I presume?”
― T.S. Eliot Reads: The Wasteland, Four Quartets and Other Poems
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