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Quotes by Wystan Hugh Auden

"No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."
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"A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep."
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"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can all of them make me laug"
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"Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape."
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"Weep for the lives your wishes never led."
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"The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which"
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"The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile"
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"We are here on earth to do good for others. What the others are here for, I don't know."
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"Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do."
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"Some books are undeservedly forgotten none are undeservedly remembered."
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"When one has great gifts, what answer to the meaning of existence should one require beyond the right to exercise them"
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"History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology."
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"May it not be that, just as we have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so"
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"Goodness is easier to recognize than to define."
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"To ask the hard question is simple."
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"As a rule it was the pleasure haters that became unjust."
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"All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation."
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"It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ."
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"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these"
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