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W. H. Auden

Virtues
The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.
5.0 · 54 votes · 4 reads
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Art and Culture
The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
5.0 · 64 votes · 136 reads
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Various
The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
3.8 · 6 votes · 127 reads
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Art and Culture
The Writeris more concerned to know than to judge.
3.4 · 64 votes · 11 reads
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Art and Culture
There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately no one knows what they are.
3.3 · 39 votes · 174 reads
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Society
There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
4.2 · 26 votes · 144 reads
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Thought and Reason
There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.
3.2 · 46 votes · 181 reads
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Virtues
Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
3.9 · 62 votes · 120 reads
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Feelings
We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.
4.0 · 47 votes · 139 reads
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Thought and Reason
What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French lite
3.1 · 6 votes · 73 reads
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Time
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
3.7 · 5 votes · 185 reads
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Society
You know that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
4.8 · 61 votes · 115 reads
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Art and Culture
You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.
3.7 · 13 votes · 31 reads
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