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It is worth while dying, to find out what life is.

It is worth while dying, to find out what life is.

T. S. Eliot
Death, Dying, Life Is
"The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot".

It takes so many years to learn that one is dead.

T. S. Eliot
Death, Years, Dying
T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.1133, Faber & Faber

He who was living is now dead We who were living are now dying With a little patience.

T. S. Eliot
Patience, Dying, Littles
1922 The Waste Land, pt.5,'What the Thunder Said'.

Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.

T. S. Eliot
Life, Death, Dying
Sweeney Agonistes (1932)

I am tired with my own life and the lives of those after me, I am dying in my own death and the deaths of those after me.

T. S. Eliot
Tired, Dying, Mortality
T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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