And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for si…

T. S. Eliot
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And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness. ✨ T. S. Eliot (2014). The Rock: A Pageant Play, p.40, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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