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Quotations By W.H. Auden


Addiction
All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation.

Books
A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

Class
In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.

Education
A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.

Love
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.