Quotes From "The Cocktail Party" By T.S. Eliot

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We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger. T.S. Eliot
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Two people who know they do not understand each other, breeding children whom they do not understand and who will never understand them. T.S. Eliot
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Everyone’s alone–or so it seems to me. They make noises, and think they are talking to each other; They make faces, and think they understand each other, And I’m sure they don’t. Is that delusion? Can we only love Something created in our own imaginations? T.S. Eliot
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Your burden is not to clear your conscience But to learn how to bear the burdens on your conscience. T.S. Eliot