Maria

“Reilly: The human condition...they may remember the vision they have had, but they cease to regret it, maintain themselves by the common routine, learn to avoid excessive expectation, Become tolerant of themselves and others, Giving and taking, in the usual actions what there is to give and take. They do not repine; Are contented with the morning that separates and with the evening that brings together for casual talk before the fire. Two people who know they do not understand each other, breeding children whom they do not understand and who will never understand them.

Celia: Is that the best life?

Reilly: It is a good life. Though you will not know how good until you come to the end. But you will want nothing else, and the other life will be only like a book you have read once, and lost. In a world of lunacy, violence, stupidity, greed...it is a good life.”
― T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party

“You will have to live with those memories and make them into something new. Only by acceptance of the past will you alter its meaning.”
― T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party

“All cases are unique, and very similar to others.”
― T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party

“And if all that is meaningless, I want to be cured
Of a craving for something I cannot find And of the shame of never finding it.”
― T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party