"If age, which is certainly Just as wicked……" — Wystan Hugh Auden
"If age, which is certainly Just as wicked as youth, look any wiser, It is only that youth is still able to believe It will get away with anything, while age Knows only too well that it has got away with nothing."
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Wystan Hugh Auden
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314 Quotes by Wystan Hugh Auden
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Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
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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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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
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