T. S. Eliot Quotes About Running
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When the whole world is running headlong towards the precipice, one who walks in the opposite direction is looked at as being crazy.
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Cold Mountain Buddhas Han Shan Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness be dancing. Whisper of running streams, and winter lightning. The wild thyme unseen and the wild strawberry, The laughter in the garden, echoed ecstasy Not lost, but requiring, pointing to the agony Of death and birth.
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Writing every day is a way of keeping the engine running, and then something good may come out of it.
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Destiny ... a word which means more than we can find any definitions for. It is a word which can have no meaning in a mechanical universe: if that which is wound up must run down, what destiny is there in that? Destiny is not necessitarianism, and it is not caprice: it is something essentially meaningful. Each man has his destiny, though some men are undoubtedly "men of destiny" in a sense in which most men are not.
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In a world of fugitives the one who stays home will seem to be running away
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In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.
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