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Wystan Hugh Auden has 321 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon…
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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all…
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action…
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A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
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A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
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Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
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Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to…
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
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All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
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I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination.
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To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, is a keen observer of life. The word Intellectual suggests straight away. A man…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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I met a keen observer who gave me a tip: 'If you run across a restaurant where you often see priests eating…
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Jealousy is a keen observer, but looks for all the wrong signs.
— H. L. Mencken
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I have always been a very visual person and a keen observer.
— Annie Lennox
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I was a keen observer and listener. I picked up on clues. I figured things out logically, and I enjoyed puzzles. I…
— Sonia Sotomayor
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She was a keen observer, a precise user of language, sharp-tongued and funny. She could stir your emotions. Yes, really, that's what…
— Haruki Murakami
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I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.
— Imtiaz Ali
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