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More Quotes by T. S. Eliot
If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
You are the music while the music lasts.
For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.
Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.
If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.
Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.