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Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it.

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The end is where we start from.

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I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat.

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Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.

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The Rum Turn Tugger is a terrible bore: When you let him in, then he wants to be out; He's always on the wrong side of every door, And as soon as he's at home, then he'd like to get about.

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I've been born, and once is enough.

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I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you Which shall be the darkness of God. . . . So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

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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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A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many.

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[On The Waste Land:] Various critics have done me the honor to interpret the poem in terms of criticism of the contemporary world, have considered it, indeed, as an important bit of social criticism. To me it was only the relief of a personal and wholly insignificant grouse against life; it is just a piece of rhythmical grumbling.

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We shall not cease from exploring, And the end of our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.

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Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each pursued for its own sake.

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We see the light but see not whence it comes. O Light Invisible, we glorify Thee!

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

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That was my way of putting it-not very satisfactory: A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion, Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle With words and meanings.

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To justify Christian morality because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth of Christianity, is a very dangerous inversion.

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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

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The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

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And the end and the beginning were always there Before the beginning and after the end.

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Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity.

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