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W.H. Auden
O let not Time deceive you, You cannot conquer Time.
W.H. Auden
Time
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Deception
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Mortality
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Human Limitations
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Philosophical Insight
W.H. Auden’s Quotes On Topics
Necessity
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Historical Commemoration
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Self
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Wordplay
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Life
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Suspicion
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Innocence
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Spiritual Invitation
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Metaphor
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Value Judgment
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Leisure
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Hemingway
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Contradiction
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Iceland
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Community
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Literary Admiration
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Unconscious Expression
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Sensory Experience
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Monetary Metaphor
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Human Condition
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More W.H. Auden Quotes
“The most difficult problem in personal knowledge, whether of oneself or of others, is the problem of guessing when to think as a historian and when to think as an anthropologist.”
W.H. Auden
Self-knowledge
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Perspective
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History
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Anthropology
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Understanding Others
“Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.”
W.H. Auden
Evil
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Humanity
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Moral Complexity
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Everyday Life
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Introspection
“Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.”
W.H. Auden
Music
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Creativity
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Accessibility
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Art
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Sensory Experience
“For time is inches And the heart's changes, Where ghost has haunted Lost and wanted.”
W.H. Auden
Time
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Change
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Loss
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Desire
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Poetic Imagery
“Most people enjoy the sight of their own handwriting as they enjoy the smell of their own farts.”
W.H. Auden
Self-appreciation
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Vanity
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Human Nature
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Humor
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Personal Bias
“Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity.”
W.H. Auden
Money
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Freedom
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Paradox
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Necessity
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Economics
“All time spent reading is time well-spent.”
W.H. Auden
Reading
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Value
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Time
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Knowledge
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Personal Growth
“A god who is both self-sufficient and content to remain so could not interest us enough to raise the question of his existence.”
W.H. Auden
Theology
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Divine Nature
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Human Interest
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Existence
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Philosophical Inquiry
“That the speech of self-disclosure should be translatable seems to me very odd, but I am convinced that it is. The conclusion that I draw is that the only quality which all human being without exception possess is uniqueness: any characteristic, on the other hand, which one individual can be recognized as having in common with another, like red hair or the English language, implies the existence of other individual qualities which this classification excludes.”
W.H. Auden
Uniqueness
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Translation
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Self-disclosure
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Human Nature
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Individuality
“Though one cannot always Remember exactly why one has been happy, There is no forgetting that one was.”
W.H. Auden
Happiness
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Memory
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Emotions
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Human Experience
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Past Joy
“Nobody is ever sent to Hell: he or she insists on going there.”
W.H. Auden
Hell
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Free Will
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Choice
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Responsibility
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Theological Insight
“Money cannot buy the fuel of love but is excellent kindling.”
W.H. Auden
Love
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Money
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Relationships
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Metaphor
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Materialism
“Into this neutral air Where blind skyscrapers use Their full height to proclaim The strength of Collective Man, Each language pours its vain Competitive excuse.”
W.H. Auden
Urban Life
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Society
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Competition
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Language
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Metaphor
“It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is, rightly, more important that he eat than that he philosophize.”
W.H. Auden
Pleasure
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Hierarchy
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Hunger
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Philosophy
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Human Needs
“All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.”
W.H. Auden
Sin
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Addiction
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Damnation
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Human Nature
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Moral Decay
“There is only one thing necessary: to possess either courage, or kindness, or common sense, or all three, in order to be happy.”
W.H. Auden
Happiness
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Courage
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Kindness
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Common Sense
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Simplicity
“Let us honor if we can the vertical man, though we value none but the horizontal one.”
W.H. Auden
Values
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Morality
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Societal Preferences
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Human Nature
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Irony
“Water is the soul of the Earth.”
W.H. Auden
Water
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Life
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Essence
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Nature
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Sustainability
“I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.”
W.H. Auden
Acting
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Appearance
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Self-deprecation
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Career
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Humor
“It's usually the stupid people that develop long illnesses. You need more than indolence and selfishness, you need endurance to make a good patient.”
W.H. Auden
Illness
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Intelligence
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Patience
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Endurance
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Social Commentary
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