“And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time”

— T.S. Eliot, book Four Quartets

Variant: We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.
Source: Four Quartets

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20th century English author 1888–1965

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