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81 " Everyone’s alone—or so it seems to me.They make noises, and think they are talking to each other;They make faces, and think they understand each other,And I’m sure they don’t. Is that delusion?Can we only loveSomething created in our own imaginations? "
― T.S. Eliot , The Cocktail Party
82 " Footfalls echo in the memorydown the passage we did not taketowards the door we never openedinto the rose garden. My words echothus, in your mind "
― T.S. Eliot , Four Quartets
83 " Though you forget the way to the Temple,There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not. You shall not deny the Stranger. "
― T.S. Eliot , The Rock
84 " The journey not the arrival matters. "
― T.S. Eliot
85 " Those who glitter with the glory of the hummingbird meaning death "
86 " What is hell? Hell is oneself. Hell is alone, the other figures in it Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from And nothing to escape to. One is always alone. "
87 " I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me. "
― T.S. Eliot , The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
88 " We had the experience but missed the meaning. "
89 " These fragments I have shored against my ruins "
― T.S. Eliot , The Wasteland, Prufrock and Other Poems
90 " The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence "
91 " We have only to conquer Now, by suffering. This is the easier victory.Now is the triumph of the cross. "
― T.S. Eliot , Murder in the Cathedral
92 " To country people Cows are mild,And flee from any stick they throw;But I’m a timid town bred child,And all the cattle seem to know. "
93 " Believe me, Michael:Those who flee from the past will always lose the race.I know this from experience. When you reach your goal,Your imagined paradise of success and grandeur,You will find your past failures waiting there to greet you. "
94 " A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance. "
95 " Will the veiled sister pray for Those who walk in darkness, who chose thee and oppose thee, Those who are torn on the horn between season and season, time and time, between Hour and hour, word and word, power and power, those who wait In darkness? Will the veiled sister pray For children at the gate Who will not go away and cannot pray: Pray for those who chose and oppose "
96 " Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger.Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions.There is one who remembers the way to your door:Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.You shall not deny the Stranger.They constantly try to escapeFrom the darkness outside and withinBy dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good.But the man that is shall shadowThe man that pretends to be. "
97 " Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions. "
98 " The world turns and the world changes,But one thing does not change.In all of my years, one thing does not change,However you disguise it, this thing does not change:The perpetual struggle of Good and Evil. "
99 " We ask only to be reassuredAbout the noises in the cellarAnd the window that should not have been open "
― T.S. Eliot , The Family Reunion
100 " Time present and time pastAre both perhaps present in time futureAnd time future contained in time past.If all time is eternally presentAll time is unredeemable.What might have been is an abstractionRemaining a perpetual possibilityOnly in a world of speculation.What might have been and what has beenPoint to one end, which is always present. "