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W. H. Auden Quotes
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Poetry makes nothing happen: it survives In the valley of its saying.
Hunger allows no choice To the citizen or the police; We must love one another or die.
The eye likes novelty, but the ear craves familiarity.
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A crowd has a generalized stink. The public is odorless.
The relation of faith between subject and object is unique in every case. Hundreds may believe, but each has to believe by himself.
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
Goodness is easier to recognize than to define.
The absolutely banal-my sense of my own uniqueness.
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Before God we are all equally wise-equally foolish.
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Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
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Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.
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To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
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Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends.
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