Quote #49
Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom Remember us - if at all - not as lost Violent souls, but only As the hollow men The stuffed men.
More from Thomas Stearns Eliot
- We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw.
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