“We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.”
More from T. S. Eliot
“There will be time, there will be time, to prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.”
“Combing the white hair of the waves blown back, when the wind blows the water white and…”
“Do I dare disturb the universe?”
“I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”