Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow. -T. S. Eliot

 

Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow.


-T. S. Eliot
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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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I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.

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Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

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

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We shall never cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.

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