“A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.”
T.S. Eliot
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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.”
T.S. Eliot
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“I shall sit here, serving tea to friends. . . .”
T.S. Eliot
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“The breathing in unison …”
T.S. Eliot
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“Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.”
T.S. Eliot
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“And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.”
T.S. Eliot
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“No real “vital” character in fiction is altogether a conscious construction of the author. On the contrary, it may be a sort of parasitic growth upon the author’s personality, developing by internal necessity as much as by external addition.”
T.S. Eliot
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“All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, partof the public character; or at worst, catchwords.”
T.S. Eliot
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“Truth on our level is a different thing from truth for the jellyfish, and there must certainly be analogies for truth and error injellyfish life.”
T.S. Eliot
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“Art never improves, but … the material of art is never quite the same.”
T.S. Eliot
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“I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”
T.S. Eliot
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“Cependant, ce fut jadis un bel homme, de haute taille.”
T.S. Eliot
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