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" They know and do not know, that acting is suffering
And suffering is action. Neither does the actor suffer
Nor the patient act. But both are fixed
To an eternal action, an eternal patience
To which all must consent that it may be willed
And which all must suffer that they may will it,
That the pattern may subsist, for the pattern is the action
And the suffering, that the wheel may turn and still
Be forever still. "

T.S. Eliot , Murder in the Cathedral


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T.S. Eliot quote : They know and do not know, that acting is suffering<br />And suffering is action. Neither does the actor suffer<br />Nor the patient act. But both are fixed<br />To an eternal action, an eternal patience<br />To which all must consent that it may be willed<br />And which all must suffer that they may will it,<br />That the pattern may subsist, for the pattern is the action<br />And the suffering, that the wheel may turn and still<br />Be forever still.