Quotes from book
The Rock

T.S. Eliot
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“Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries
Bring us farther from God and nearer to the Dust.”

T.S. Eliot book The Rock

The Rock, Part I (1934)

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