„Those who have crossedWith direct eyes, to death’s other KingdomRemember us — if at all — not as lostViolent souls, but onlyAs the hollow menThe stuffed men.“

— T.S. Eliot

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„Those who have crossedWith direct eyes, to death's other KingdomRemember us“
— T.S. Eliot
„We are the hollow menWe are the stuffed menLeaning togetherHeadpiece filled with straw.“
— T.S. Eliot
„The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.“
— Ayn Rand
„I have lost friends, some by death… others by sheer inability to cross the street.“
— Virginia Woolf
„This is the dead landThis is cactus landHere the stone imagesAre raised, here they receiveThe supplication of a dead man's handUnder the twinkle of a fading star.[...]The eyes are not hereThere are no eyes hereIn this valley of dying starsIn this hollow valleyThis broken jaw of our lost kingdoms[http://aduni.org/~heather/occs/honors/Notesonpoem.htm#fiftysevensixty In this last of meeting placesWe grope togetherAnd avoid speech]Gathered on this beach of the tumid river[http://aduni.org/~heather/occs/honors/Notesonpoem.htm#sixtyonesixtytwo Sightless, unlessThe eyes reappear][http://aduni.org/~heather/occs/honors/Notesonpoem.htm#sixtyfoursixtythree As the perpetual starMultifoliate rose]Of death's twilight kingdomThe hope onlyOf empty men.“
— T.S. Eliot
„The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.“
— H.L. Mencken