Because I know that time is always time and place is always place and …

T. S. Eliot
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Because I know that time is always time and place is always place and only place. And what is actual is actual only for one time. And only for one place. I rejoice that things are as they are. ✨ T.S. Eliot (2011). The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot, p.78, Faber & Faber
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