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A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
~ T. S. Eliot - [Plays]
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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
~ T. S. Eliot - [Death and Dying]
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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.
~ T. S. Eliot - [Spring]
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Each venture is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate with shabby equipment always deteriorating in the general mess of imprecision of feeling.
~ T. S. Eliot - [Poetry and Poets]
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Footfalls echo in the memory down the passage which we did not take towards the door we never opened into the rose-garden.
~ T. S. Eliot - [Regret]
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For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of many deeds are blended so good and evil in the end become confounded.
~ T. S. Eliot - [Consequences]
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For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.
~ T. S. Eliot - [Words]
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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
~ T. S. Eliot - [Importance]
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Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.
~ T. S. Eliot - [Hell]
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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
~ T. S. Eliot - [Age and Aging]
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