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I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.

I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.

T. S. Eliot
Suffering, Fancy, Gentle
"Preludes" l. 48 (1917)

We must learn to suffer more.

T. S. Eliot
Suffering
T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now, by suffering. This is the easier victory.

T. S. Eliot
Fighting, Men, Suffering
T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.256, Faber & Faber

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