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“Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.”
-- W. H. Auden
#Love #Strength #Water
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“We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.”
-- W. H. Auden
#Change #Growth #Religion
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“Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.”
-- W. H. Auden
#Expression #Feelings #Might
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“'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'”
-- W. H. Auden
#Art #Nature #Healing
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“Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.”
-- W. H. Auden
#Unique #Men #Mirrors
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“Music is the best means we have of digesting time.”
-- W. H. Auden
#Music #Art #Philosophy
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“A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.”
-- W. H. Auden
#Real #Book
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“Let all your thinks be thanks.”
-- W. H. Auden
#Thinking #Thanks
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“All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.”
-- W. H. Auden
#Addiction #Damnation #Sin
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“The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.”
-- W. H. Auden
#Angel #Way #Fairytale
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“Water is the soul of the Earth.”
-- W. H. Auden
#Water #Soul #Earth
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“Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.”
-- W. H. Auden
#Book #Beer #Quality
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“Learn from your dreams what you lack.”
-- W. H. Auden
#Dream
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“There's always another story. There's more than meets the eye.”
-- W. H. Auden
#Eye #Stories #More Than Meets The Eye
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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.”
-- W. H. Auden
#Inspirational #Funny #Helping Others
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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 laugh.”
-- W. H. Auden
#Love #Inspirational #Life
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“The definition of prayer is paying careful and concentrated attention to something other than your own constructions.”
-- W. H. Auden
#Prayer #Attention #Definitions
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“Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.”
-- W. H. Auden
#Marriage #Interesting #Romance
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“There are good books which are only for adults. There are no good books which are only for children.”
-- W. H. Auden
#Children #Book #Adults
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“Now is the age of anxiety.”
-- W. H. Auden
#Birthday #Anxiety #Age
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“Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith.”
-- W. H. Auden
#Christmas #Friday #Easter
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“All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.”
-- W. H. Auden
#Art #Believe #Simple
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“My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.”
-- W. H. Auden
#Rain #Cake #Complaining
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“One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.”
-- W. H. Auden
#Hell #Factories #Assembly
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“Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.”
-- W. H. Auden
#Medicine #Medical #States
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“Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.”
-- W. H. Auden
#Smell #Doe #Invisible
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“Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.”
-- W. H. Auden
#Respect #Civilization #Diversity
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“The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.”
-- W. H. Auden
#Death #Men #Gmos
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“I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.”
-- W. H. Auden
#Learning #Israel #Evil
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“Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.”
-- W. H. Auden
#Art #Mean #Bread
