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Merely Quotes by Thomas Stearns Eliot
- Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity.
- The purpose of a Christian education would not be merely to make men and women pious Christians: a system which aimed too rigidly at this…
- Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One…
- A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.
- What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in the course of…
- The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of…
- When war is not just it is subsequently justified; so it becomes many things. In reality, an unjust war is merely piracy. It consists of…
- I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do…
- Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air The air which is now thoroughly small and dry…
- Hell is oneself, Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections.
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