April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mix…

T. S. Eliot
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April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain. ✨ The Waste Land l. 1 (1922)
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