"The eye likes novelty, but the ear craves…" — Wystan Hugh Auden
"The eye likes novelty, but the ear craves familiarity."
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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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The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.
— John Buchan
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Three cigarettes in, your body already craves it. It is that addictive.
— Loni Anderson
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The man who craves disciples and wants followers is always more or less of a charlatan. The man of genuine…
— Elbert Hubbard
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Love is trusting, accepting, and believing, without guarantee. Love is patient and waits, but it's an active waiting, not a…
— Leo Buscaglia
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The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own…
— Robert Morrison MacIver
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Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand; the eye craves the…
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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Everyone wants to be a dyke now; everyone craves our freedom, guts, and knowing looks.
— Susie Bright
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It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, and that craves wary walking.
— William Shakespeare
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Luckily, however, life doesn't always follow tradition, but craves out a path of its own.
— Unknown Author
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If people want to think I get drunk and stay out all night, let'em. That's how I got here you…
— Dean Martin
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The reason that ego and love are not compatible comes down to this: you cannot take your ego into the…
— Deepak Chopra
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