Human kind Cannot bear very much reality.

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Human kind Cannot bear very much reality.

T.S. Eliot

Burnt Norton · 1936

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Facing the truth Delusion Human nature

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1936

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T.S. Eliot

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Eliot, T. S. “Burnt Norton.” Collected Poems 1909–1935. Harcourt, Brace And Company, 1936, pt. 1.

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