T. S. Eliot Quotes, Art Quotes, Sacrifice Quotes

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

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I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.

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The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. What one of us but can call to mind some relative more promising in youth than all his fellows, who has fallen a sacrifice to his rapacity?

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Now he realized the truth: that sacrifice was no purchase of freedom. It was like a great elective office, it was like an inheritance of power - to certain people at certain times an essential luxury, carrying with it not a guarantee but a responsibility, not a security but an infinite risk. Its very momentum might drag him down to ruin - the passing of the emotional wave that made it possible might leave the one who made it high and dry forever on an island of despair...Sacrifice by its very nature was arrogant and impersonal; sacrifice should be eternally supercilious.

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The State is the sum total of the sacrifice, on its behalf, of its members.

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…Faith forged in the furnace of trials and tears is marked by trust and testimony. Only God can count the sacrifice; only God can measure the sorrow; only God can know the hearts of those who serve Him.

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Non-co-operation means nothing less than training in self-sacrifice.

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The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness.

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There is a great ladder of religious cruelty, and, of its many rungs, three are the most important. People used to make human sacrifices to their god, perhaps even sacrificing those they loved the best ... Then, during the moral epoch of humanity, people sacrificed the strongest instincts they had, their 'nature,' to their god... Finally: what was left to be sacrificed? ... Didn't people have to sacrifice God himself and worship rocks, stupidity, gravity, fate, or nothingness out of sheer cruelty to themselves?

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