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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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And otherwise normal men become monsters, too.
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Normal men retain their childish longing for a woman to mother them. At adolescence a new desire is added. They want a…
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Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.
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There's only one good test of pornography. Get twelve normal men to read the book, and then ask them, ''Did you get…
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War is like a monster," he says, almost to himself. "War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows…
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The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one’s mind, is the condition of the normal…
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I'm a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for…
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