T. S. Eliot Quotes, Cat Quotes

With cats, some say, one rule is true: Don't speak till you are spoken to.

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Before a cat will condescend to treat you as a trusted friend, some little token of esteem is needed, like a dish of cream.

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That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before you are contented with what you can desire; / Before you know what is left to be desired; / And you go on wishing that you could desire / What desire has left behind.

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Would it have been worth while, To have bitten off the matter with a smile, To have squeezed the universe into a ball To roll it towards some overwhelming question

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You gave me hyacinths first a year ago; They called me the hyacinth girl.' —Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden, Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither Living nor dead, and I knew nothing, Looking into the heart of light, the silence. Od' und leer das Meer.

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This is the feeling for syllable and rhythm, penetrating far below the conscious levels of thought and feeling, invigorating every word.

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Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.

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As a rule, with me an unfinished [idea] is a thing that might as well be rubbed out. It's better, if there's something good in it that I might make use of elsewhere, to leave it at the back of my mind than on paper in a drawer. If I leave it in a drawer it remains the same thing but if it's in the memory it becomes transformed into something else.

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We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value - a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity.

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It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.

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For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it!

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Men tighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding.

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Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.

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That meddling in other people's affairs...formerly conducted by the most discreet intrigue is now openly advocated under the name of intervention.

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Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.

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There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth.

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Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think

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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

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When the Stranger says: "What is the meaning of this city? Do you huddle close together because you love each other?" What will you answer? "We all dwell together To make money from each other"? or "This is a community"? Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger. Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions.

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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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