I'm always reminded about T. S. Eliot's reputation for having worn suits everywhere he went. Virginia Woolf, for example, would write her brother-in-law: "Come to lunch. Eliot will be there in a four-piece suit."
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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