T. S. Eliot Quotes About Past
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Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time.
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The past and future / Are conquered, and reconciled.
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The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is incarnation. Here the impossible union of spheres of existence is actual. Here the past and future are conquered and reconciled.
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time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.
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Not less of love, but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the Future as well as the past.
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Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.
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At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is, But neither arrest nor movement. And do not all it fixity, Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards, Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
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Past art is subject to change.
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And right action is freedom From past and future also.
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Here between the hither and the farther shore While time is withdrawn, consider the future And the past with an equal mind.
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Fare forward, travellers! not escaping from the past Into different lives, or into any future; You are not the same people who left that station Or who will arrive at any terminus, While the narrowing rails slide together behind you.
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Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable.
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The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence
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Tradition: how the vitality of the past enriches the life of the present.
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Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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