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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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O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast.
— Anne Boleyn
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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything…
— Eugene Ionesco
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Earth, receive an honored guest; William Yeats is laid to rest. Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Be alert as you watch a dog at play or at rest. Let the animal teach you to feel at home in…
— Eckhart Tolle
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The clouds were flying fast, the wind was coming up in gusts, banging some neighboring shutters that had broken loose, twirling the…
— Charles Dickens
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Like the star that shines afar, Without haste and without rest, Let each one wheel with steady sway Round the task that…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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It is always what I have already said: always the wish that you may find patience enough in yourself to endure, and…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time, and not be discouraged…
— John Ruskin
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So hollow, so vicious, so afraid I couldn't let myself see that I could never be held back or up, no, I'll…
— Linkin Park
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