Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

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A poet's hope to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.

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No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

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We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know.

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To save your world you asked this man to die. Would this man, could he see you now, ask why?

Wystan Hugh Auden in Epitaph for an Unknown Soldier
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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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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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Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were.

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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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History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

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