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“Happy Cinco de Mayo. If you don't know what that means, maybe you're a little out of touch - or maybe you're the governor of Arizona.”

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“Death has a hundred hands and walks by a thousand ways.”

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Book:Murder in the Cathedral

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“History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues.”

History Issues Passages Cunning Corridors

Author:T. S. Eliot

“We took up our positions, in obedience to instructions.”

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Book:The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume II: Practical Cats and Further Verses

Source: The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume II: Practical Cats and Further Verses

“But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before: though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where.”

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Book:Collected Poems 1909-1962

Source: Collected Poems 1909-1962

“A philosophy can and must be worked out with the greatest rigour and discipline in the details, but can ultimately be founded on nothing but faith: and this is the reason, I suspect, why the novelties in philosophy are only in elaboration, and never in fundamentals.”

Reason Philosophy Faith Discipline Fundamentals Details Suspects Novelty Rigour

Author:T. S. Eliot

“In our rhythm of earthly life we tire of light. We are glad when the day ends, when the play ends; and ecstasy is too much pain.”

Life Ends Play Light Pain Too Much Glad Rhythm Ecstasy Tire

Book:Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950

Source: Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950

“Gradually we come to admit that Shakespeare understands a greater extent and variety of human life than Dante; but that Dante understands deeper degrees of degradation and higher degrees of exaltation.”

Humans Greater Higher Degrees Deeper Variety Human Life Degradation Exaltation

Book:Selected essays

Source: Selected essays

“From a purely external point of view there is no will; and to find will in any phenomenon requires a certain empathy; we observe aman's actions and place ourselves partly but not wholly in his position; or we act, and place ourselves partly in the position of an outsider.”

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Author:T. S. Eliot

“I am tired with my own life and the lives of those after me, I am dying in my own death and the deaths of those after me.”

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Book:Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950

Source: Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950

“It has frequently been said that we never desire what we think absolutely inapprehensible: it is however true that some of our sharpest agonies are those in which the object of desire is regarded as both possible and imaginary.”

Thinking Said Desire Objects Imaginary Agony Objects Of Desire

Author:T. S. Eliot