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Wystan Hugh Auden Quotes

Wystan Hugh Auden -- Quote #1

A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep. -- Wystan Hugh Auden

Wystan Hugh Auden -- Quote #2

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. -- Wystan Hugh Auden

Wystan Hugh Auden -- Quote #3

Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape. -- Wystan Hugh Auden

Wystan Hugh Auden -- Quote #4

Weep for the lives your wishes never led. -- Wystan Hugh Auden

Wystan Hugh Auden -- Quote #5

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 I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me. -- Wystan Hugh Auden

Wystan Hugh Auden -- Quote #6

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own. -- Wystan Hugh Auden

Wystan Hugh Auden -- Quote #7

We are here on earth to do good for others. What the others are here for, I don't know. -- Wystan Hugh Auden

Wystan Hugh Auden -- Quote #8

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do. -- Wystan Hugh Auden

Wystan Hugh Auden -- Quote #9

Some books are undeservedly forgotten none are undeservedly remembered. -- Wystan Hugh Auden

Wystan Hugh Auden -- Quote #10

When one has great gifts, what answer to the meaning of existence should one require beyond the right to exercise them -- Wystan Hugh Auden

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