"Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry,……" — Wystan Hugh Auden
"Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith."
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314 Quotes by Wystan Hugh Auden
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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…
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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…
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
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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…
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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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There is Auschwitz, and so there cannot be God.
— Primo Levi
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Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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Genocide is like a dessert. It is made of the flesh and bones of woman and children, it is sweetened…
— Terry Brooks
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I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating, but the radical and universal…
— R. J. Hollingdale
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There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have…
— Nahum Goldmann
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No matter what I accomplish, it doesn't seem like much compared to surviving Auschwitz.
— Art Spiegelman
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I remember, when I was in university I studied history, and there was this one major historian of the Third…
— Sacha Baron Cohen
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People like me are what stand between us and Auschwitz.
— Newt Gingrich
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I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their…
— David Ben-Gurion
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Auschwitz exists because of politicized science.
— Michael Crichton
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Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature. What I see coming…
— Erwin Chargaff
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The sincere Christian knows that what died in Auschwitz was not the Jewish people but Christianity.
— Elie Wiesel
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