Forget Quote by W. H. Auden

“Though one cannot always Remember exactly why one has been happy, There is no forgetting that one was.”

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Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

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The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.

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Harrow the house of the dead; look shining at New styles of architecture, a change of heart.

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Most poetry is the utterance of a man in some state of passion, love, joy, grief, rage, etc., and no doubt this is as…

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Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores.

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If age, which is certainly Just as wicked as youth, look any wiser, It is only that youth is still able to believe It…

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“Those to whom evil is done, do evil in return”

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I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.

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One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.

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How happy the lot of the mathematician. He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or…

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Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

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Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.

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