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«Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind»
«What all schoolchildren learn,Those to whom evil is doneDo evil in return.»
«Looking up at the stars, I know quite wellThat, for all they care, I can go to hell»
«About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters: how well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
| About:
Suffering
| Keywords:
dully, old master, Old Masters
«Evil is unspectacular and always human And shares our bed and eats at our own table»
«Those who will not reason / Perish in the act: / Those who will not act/ Perish for that reason.»
«It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
| About:
Lies,
Talent
| Keywords:
a good deal, good deal, organ
«No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.»
«Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were.»
«It is... axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time: conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
| Keywords:
axiomatic, contradiction, dealings, insensitive, insensitivity, sensitive
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