Nobody is ever sent to Hell: he or she insists on going there. - W. H. Auden - Quotesmemo.com

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W. H. Auden

Nobody is ever sent to Hell: he or she insists on going there.

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Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.

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We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.

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My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

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All that we are not stares back at what we are.

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And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.

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