T. S. Eliot Quotes About Memories
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Lady of silences Calm and distressed Torn and most whole Rose of memory Rose of forgetfulness Exhausted and life-giving Worried reposeful The single Rose Is now the Garden Where all loves end Terminate torment Of love unsatisfied The greater torment Of love satisfied End of the endless Journey to no end Conclusion of all that Is inconclusible Speech without word and Word of no speech Grace to the Mother For the Garden Where all love ends.
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What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them.
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Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.
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So first, your memory I'll jog, And say: A CAT IS NOT A DOG
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Men live by forgetting and woman live on memories.
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We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.
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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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As a rule, with me an unfinished [idea] is a thing that might as well be rubbed out. It's better, if there's something good in it that I might make use of elsewhere, to leave it at the back of my mind than on paper in a drawer. If I leave it in a drawer it remains the same thing but if it's in the memory it becomes transformed into something else.
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Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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And through the spaces of the dark Midnight shakes the memory As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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