“Only through time time is conquered”
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T.S. Eliot
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Four Quartets
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We'll be tall as the pines
Neither heroes nor clowns.
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Context: If we only have love
We will never bow down
We'll be tall as the pines
Neither heroes nor clowns.
If we only have love
Then we'll only be men
And we'll drink from the Grail
To be born once again
Then with nothing at all
But the little we are
We'll have conquered all time
All space, the sun, and the stars.
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