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The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.
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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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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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When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.
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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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What is this self-inside us, this silent observer, severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us, and urge us onto futile activity, and in the end, judge us still more severely for the errors into which his own reproaches drove us?
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Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity, He's broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity.
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Writing every day is a way of keeping the engine running, and then something good may come out of it.
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Prophesy to the wind, to the wind only for only The wind will listen.
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What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in the course of time a poet may become merely reader in respect to his own works, forgetting his original meaning.
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I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
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Home is where one starts from.
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In my beginning is my end.
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We ask only to be reassured About the noises in the cellar And the window that should not have been open
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Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no; but expression is only altered by a man of genius.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.
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We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are doing when we apeal to those of others. This is very difficult, because our own prejudice and emotional bias always seems to us so rational.
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Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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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.
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O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
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