Quote #177

I feel it would be a kind of surrender - No, not a surrender - more like a betrayal. You see, I think I really had a vision or something Though I don't know what it is. I don't want to forget it. I want to live with it. I could do without everything Put up with anything, if I might cherish it.

More from Thomas Stearns Eliot

  1. In a world of lunacy Violence, stupidity, greed:it is a good life.
  2. There is another way, if you have the courage. The first I could describe in familiar terms Because you have seen it, as we all have seen i…
  3. Neither way is better. Both ways are necessary. It is also necessary To make a choice between them.
  4. Two people who know they do not understand each other, Breeding children whom they do not understand And who will never understand them.
  5. Those who take the other Can forget their loneliness. You will not forget yours. Each way means loneliness - and communion.
  6. It's not that I'm afraid of being hurt again: Nothing again can either hurt or heal. I have thought at moments that the ecstasy is real Alt…
  7. We must always take risks. That is our destiny.
  8. Disillusion can become itself an illusion If we rest in it.

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