T. S. Eliot
British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic
Lived from: 1888 - 1965
Category: Media | Writers (Contemporary) Country: 
United States
Born: 26 september 1888 Died: 4 january 1965
Quotes 61 till 79 of 79.
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This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.
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This love is silent.
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Time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.
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Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.
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War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.
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We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now, by suffering. This is the easier victory.
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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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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism.
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We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started... and know the place for the first time.
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What we call the beginning is often the end and to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them.
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When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.
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When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this behavior by his attitude towards the result of the behavior arranged by himself, we can be influenced towards behaving in the same way.
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Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
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Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information.
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Words strain, crack, and sometime break, under the burden.
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You are the music while the music lasts.
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