Tag: T. S. Eliot

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

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Only those who will risk going too far Can possibly find out how far one can go.

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So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good so far as we do evil or good, we are human and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing at least we exist.

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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

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Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.

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The last temptation is the greatest treason to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

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The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.

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This is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper.

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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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