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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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She wished some help would come from outside. But in the whole world there was no help. Society was terrible because it…
— D. H. Lawrence
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The rage for wanting to conclude is one of the most deadly and most fruitless manias to befall humanity. Each religion and…
— Gustave Flaubert
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A relatively small and eternally quarrelsome country in Western Europe, fountainhead of rationalist political manias, militarily impotent, historically inglorious during the past…
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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Beloved, we are always in the wrong, Handling so clumsily our stupid lives, Suffering too little or too long, Too careful even…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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No pill can help me deal with the problem of not wanting to take pills; likewise, no amount of psychotherapy alone can…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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What we need to understand is, one, that there are market failures; and two, that there are things like asset bubbles and…
— Nouriel Roubini
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No pill can help me deal with the problem of not wanting to take pills; likewise, no amount of psychotherapy alone can…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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Conservatives, please. Let's not duplicate the manias of the Left as we figure out how to deal with Mr. Obama. He is…
— David Horowitz
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