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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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Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words.
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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…
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There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.
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Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult - at least…
— Charles Darwin
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If we do not rise to the challenge of our unique capacity to shape our lives, to seek the kinds of growth…
— Unknown Author
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