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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

T. S. Eliot
Kindness, Reality, Atheism
Four Quartets "Burnt Norton" pt. 1 (1936)

To believe in the supernatural is not simply to believe that after living a successful, material, and fairly virtuous life here one will continue to exist in the best-possible substitute for this world, or that after living a starved and stunted life here one will be compensated with all the good things one has gone without: it is to believe that the supernatural is the greatest reality here and now.

T. S. Eliot
Believe, Successful, Reality

Humankind can't stand too much reality.

T. S. Eliot
Teaching, Reality, Too Much

Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow

T. S. Eliot
Fall, Reality, Ideas
"The Hollow Men" l. 72 (1925)

When war is not just it is subsequently justified; so it becomes many things. In reality, an unjust war is merely piracy. It consists of piracy, ego and, more than anything, money. War is our century's prostitution.

T. S. Eliot
War, Reality, Ego

Human kind cannot bear much reality.

T. S. Eliot
Reality, Humanity, Bears
"In Light of India". Book by Octavio Paz, Chapter 1, www.nytimes.com. 1995.

Humankind cannot stand reality.

T. S. Eliot
Reality, Humankind

Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom Between the conception And the creation Between the emotion And the response Falls the Shadow Life is very long Between the desire And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence And the descent Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom For Thine is Life is For Thine is the This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.

T. S. Eliot
Fall, Reality, Essence
"The Hollow Men" l. 95 (1925)

Most contemporary novels are not really "written." They obtain what reality they have largely from an accurate rendering of the noises that human beings currently make in their daily simple needs of communication; and what part of a novel is not composed of these noises consists of a prose which is no more alive than that of a competent newspaper writer or government official. A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel-reader is not prepared to give.

T. S. Eliot
Communication, Simple, Reality

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