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It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests. — John James Audubon
I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no… — John James Audubon
Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee. — Saint Augustine
He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent. — Saint Augustine
In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty. — Saint Augustine
We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs. — Saint Augustine
Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires. — Saint Augustine
We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot. — Saint Augustine
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are… — Saint Augustine
Our life is what our thoughts make it. — Marcus Aurelius
We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come… — Marcus Aurelius
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to… — Jane Austen
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn? — Jane Austen
One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best. — Jane Austen
We do not look in our great cities for our best morality. — Jane Austen
I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs. — Paul Auster
The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we… — Paul Auster
Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our mother or father… — Paul Auster

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