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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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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action…
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Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
— Albert Camus
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By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.
— Edward Abbey
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A woman, as much as a man, is responsible by the age of forty for the character of her face. But women,…
— Edward Abbey
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No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair.
— Margaret Turnbull
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After 40, a man is responsible for his face.
— George Orwell
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Every man is responsible only for his own acts. The sons do not inherit the sins of the fathers. But can we…
— Aleksander Kwasniewski
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How can a good God appoint cruel people to positions of authority? The answer is simple: God is the originator of the…
— John Bevere
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[M]an is condemned to be free. Condemned, because he did not create himself, in other respect is free; because, once thrown into…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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A man is responsible for his ignorance.
— Milan Kundera
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Marriages may be made in heaven, but man is responsible for the maintenance work
— Bertrand Russell
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Dear Sister,even though a man is responsible for his gaze, you are responsible for what you give him to gaze at. Guard…
— Anas
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