“The world turns and the world changes,
But one thing does not change.
In all of my years, one thing does not change,
However you disguise it, this thing does not change:
The perpetual struggle of Good and Evil.”

—  T.S. Eliot

Choruses from The Rock (1934)

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20th century English author 1888–1965

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