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All time is eternal, moving inexorably toward an end which we believe is a result of our actions, but over which our control is mere illusion.

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You must not on any account give me credit for being penetrating. I have impressed people that way before, and the result is always disaster.

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I journeyed to London, to the timekept City, Where the River flows, with foreign flotations. There I was told: we have too many churches, And too few chop-houses.

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People are only influenced in the direction in which they want to go, and influence consists largely in making them conscious of their wishes to proceed in that direction.

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But what have I, but what have I, my friend, To give you, what can you receive from me? Only the friendship and the sympathy Of one about to reach her journey's end.

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I must say Bernard Shaw is greatly improved by music.

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Philosophy: a purple bullfinch in a lilac tree.

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Signs are taken for wonders. / 'We would see a sign!' / The word within a word, unable to speak a word, / Swaddled with darkness.

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I am no prophet-and here's no great matter.

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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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The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

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O father, father Gone from us, lost to us, The church lies bereft, Alone, Desecrated, desolated. And the heathen shall build On the ruins Their world without God. I see it. I see it.

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The naming of cats is a difficult matter

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And indeed there will be time to wonder, 'Do I dare?', and 'Do I dare?

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The dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and error. The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre- To be redeemed from fire by fire. Who then devised the torment? Love. Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove. We only live, only suspire Consumed by either fire or fire.

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Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.

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We have all our private terrors, our particular shadows, our secret fears. We are afraid in a fear which we cannot face, which none understands, and our hearts are torn from us, our brains unskinned like the layers of an onion, ourselves the last.

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With Cats, some say, one rule is true: Don’t speak till you are spoken to. Myself, I do not hold with that — I say, you should ad-dress a Cat. But always keep in mind that he Resents familiarity. I bow, and taking off my hat, Ad-dress him in this form: O Cat! But if he is the Cat next door, Whom I have often met before (He comes to see me in my flat) I greet him with an oopsa Cat! I think I've heard them call him James — But we've not got so far as names.

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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

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Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.

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