Yet we have gone on living,
Living and partly living.

T.S. Eliot

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Topic

Carrying on Life

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Chorus

Author

T.S. Eliot

Source

Murder in the Cathedral

Medium

Play

Language

English

Time

1935 1930s 20th century

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Poet Writer

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United States

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Citation

Eliot, T. S. Murder in the Cathedral. 1935, Chapter House, Canterbury Cathedral, pt. 1.

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Another quote by T.S. Eliot

Words strain,
Crack and sometimes break, under the burden
Under the tension, slip, slide, perish,
Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place,
Will not stay still.

T.S. Eliot

Burnt Norton

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Topic
Meaning of words Words Limits of language

Author

T.S. Eliot
Source
Burnt Norton Four Quartets
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1936 1930s 20th century
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Citation

Eliot, T. S. “Burnt Norton.” Collected Poems 1909–1935. Harcourt, Brace And Company, 1936, pt. 5.

Another quote from the 1930s

Men have gained control over the forces of nature to such an extent that with their help they could have no difficulty in exterminating one another to the last man. They know this, and hence comes a large part of their current unrest, their unhappiness and their mood of anxiety.

Sigmund Freud

Civilization and Its Discontents

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Topic
Downsides of technology

Author

Sigmund Freud
Source
Civilization and Its Discontents
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
German
Time
1930 1930s 20th century
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Original Citation

Freud, Sigmund. Das Unbehagen in der Kultur [The Discomfort in Culture]. Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag Wien, 1930, pt. 8.

Current Citation

Freud, Sigmund. Civilization and Its Discontents, translated by James Strachey. W. W. Norton & Company, 2021, pt. 8.

Another quote about Life

Everything that lives,
Lives not alone, nor for itself.

William Blake

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Topic
Interconnectedness of all things Nature of life Life

Author

William Blake
Source
The Book of Thel
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1789 1780s 18th century
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Original Citation

Blake, William. The Book of Thel. London, c. 1789.

Current Citation

Blake, William. "The Book of Thel." Blake: Poems, edited by Peter Washington. Everyman's Library, 1994.