To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not / You must go b…

T. S. Eliot
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To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not / You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy. ✨ Four Quartets East Coker pt. 3 (1940)
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To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not / You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy. ✨ Four Quartets East Coker pt. 3 (1940)

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