As we grow older, the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living. - T. S. Eliot

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The present age. . . prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence. . . for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.

T. S. Eliot

As we grow older, the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living.

Becomes, Complicated, Older, Pattern, Patterns, World

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

Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Possibly, Risk

We shall not 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.

Exploration, Funny, Inspirational, Know, Life, Time

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

Important, People, Pride, Trouble, Wanting

April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

Breeding, Memories, Rain, Spring, Stirring

If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.

Heart, Learn, Silence, Want

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Jack White

When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.

Hate, Past, People, Like, Recreate

Gale Harold

My interests are not really with television, per se.

Interest, Interests, Per, Television

Maj Sjowall

We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.

Lie, Lying, Money, Night, Pay, Rent

Ludwig Feuerbach

The present age. . . prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence. . . for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.

Atheism, Copy, Days, Essence, Prefers, Reality

John W. Miller

Humility, or poverty of spirit, is not a matter of thinking low thoughts about ourselves. It is not a matter of groveling in the dust. It is simply a matter of knowing ourselves as we really are. And when we see ourselves as we really are, we will see that we are poor.

Dust, Humility, Low, See, Thinking