War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored…

T. S. Eliot
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War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted. ✨ T.S. Eliot (2015). The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems, p.215, Faber & Faber
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War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted. ✨ T.S. Eliot (2015). The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems, p.215, Faber & Faber

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