Shape without form, shade without color, Paralyzed force, gesture with…

T. S. Eliot
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Shape without form, shade without color, Paralyzed force, gesture without motion; Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom Remember us-if at all-not as lost Violent souls, but only As the hollow men The stuffed men. ✨ The Hollow Men l. 13 (1925)
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Shape without form, shade without color, Paralyzed force, gesture without motion; Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom Remember us-if at all-not as lost Violent souls, but only As the hollow men The stuffed men. ✨ The Hollow Men l. 13 (1925)

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