The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got … - T. S. Eliot

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The first Care in building of Cities, is to make them airy and well perflated; infectious Distempers must necessarily be propagated amongst Mankind living close together.

T. S. Eliot

The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.

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

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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.

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

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

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

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As the Roman Empire came to its close, all the old gods of the pagan world were seen as demons by the Christians who rose. It was useless to tell them as the centuries passed that their Christ was but another God of the Wood, dying and rising, as Dionysus or Osiris had done before him, and that the Virgin Mary was in fact the Good Mother again enshrined. Theirs was a new age of belief and conviction, and in it we became devils, detached from what they believed, as old knowledge was forgotten or misunderstood.

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I've never been very good talking about myself.

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When arguing with a fool, make sure the opponent isn't doing the exact same thing.

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