"What people don't realize is that intimacy has……" — Wystan Hugh Auden
"What people don't realize is that intimacy has its conventions as well as ordinary social intercourse. There are three cardinal rules -- don't take somebody else's boyfriend unless you've been specifically invited to do so, don't take a drink without being asked, and keep a scrupulous accounting in financial matters."
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Wystan Hugh Auden
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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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