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" Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative. "
T. S. Eliot
Narrow
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" The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason. "
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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. "
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" The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it. "
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" Humankind cannot bear very much reality. "
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" People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events. "
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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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" The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours. "
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" There is no method but to be very intelligent. "
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" If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are? "
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" I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different. "
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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, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords. "
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" It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves. "
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" The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all. "
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" As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. "
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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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