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What is hell? Hell is oneself, Hell is alone, the other figures in it Merely… — T.S. Eliot

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What is hell? Hell is oneself, Hell is alone, the other figures in it Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from And nothing to escape to. One is always alone.

T.S. Eliot
1949
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Eliot, T. S. The Cocktail Party. 1949, Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland, act 1, sc. 5.

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