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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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Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed.…
— Leonard Cohen
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Some recent philosophers seem to have given their moral approval to these deplorable verdicts that affirm that the intelligence of an individual…
— Alfred Binet
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Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely reducible to simple verdicts of…
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Jury verdicts, basketball games, and even music are enough to set off black rage, it seems,
— Ron Paul
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The verdicts today should send the message that within the police department there is no greater betrayal of the badge and of…
— Loretta Lynch
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Values and verdicts never bother me half as much as people trying to weasel their way around them, or people compromising their…
— Kenny Smith
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There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory.
— Pat Conroy
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The end of the trial and the 'not guilty' verdicts on all counts, clearing Michael of all charges, mean that he can…
— LaToya Jackson
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As readers, we remain in the nursery stage so long as we cannot distinguish between taste and judgment, so long, that is,…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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