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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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Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
— Seneca the Younger
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What man have you ever seen who was contented with one crime only?
— Juvenal
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As if one crime of such nature, done by a single man, acting individually, can be expiated by a similar crime done…
— Lewis E. Lawes
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There is only one evil, one crime, one sin: lack of heart.
— Multatuli
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I know they say (Stalin) killed 20, 30, 40 million people. It's bullsh*t. (I have yet to find) one crime that Stalin…
— Grover Furr
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Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Never has there been a map, however carefully executed to detail and scale, which has carried its owner over even one inch…
— Og Mandino
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Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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One fault begets another; one crime renders another necessary.
— Robert Southey
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They who once engage in iniquitous designs miserably deceive themselves when they think that they will go so far and no farther;…
— Robert Southey
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