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Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.

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I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.

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music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.

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The definition of hell is a place where nothing connects with nothing.

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We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

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I do not approve the extermination of the enemy; the policy of exterminating or, as it is barbarously said, liquidating enemies, is one of the most alarming developments of modern war and peace, from the point of view of those who desire the survival

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Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.

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Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair-

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We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together...

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The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is incarnation. Here the impossible union of spheres of existence is actual. Here the past and future are conquered and reconciled.

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All time is unreedemable.

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To believe in the supernatural is not simply to believe that after living a successful, material, and fairly virtuous life here one will continue to exist in the best-possible substitute for this world, or that after living a starved and stunted life here one will be compensated with all the good things one has gone without: it is to believe that the supernatural is the greatest reality here and now.

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Destiny waits in the hand of God, not in the hands of statesmen.

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Each way means loneliness -- and communion.

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Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications.

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I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.

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A good deal of confusion could be avoided, if we refrained from setting before the group, what can be the aim only of the individual; and before society as a whole, what can be the aim only of the group.

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Light Light The visible reminder of Invisible Light.

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April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

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Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short, staccato, like modern French prose. The typewriter makes for lucidity, but I am not sure that it encourages subtlety.

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