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When one has great gifts, what answer to the meaning of existence should one require beyond the right to exercise them
By Wystan Hugh Auden
We are here on earth to do good for others. What the others are here for, I don't know.
By Wystan Hugh Auden
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.
By Wystan Hugh Auden
The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
By Wystan Hugh Auden
May it not be that, just as we have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us
By Wystan Hugh Auden
It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.
By Wystan Hugh Auden
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
By Wystan Hugh Auden
All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation.
By Wystan Hugh Auden
Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape.
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Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
By Wystan Hugh Auden
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
By Wystan Hugh Auden
If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives for the writer to observe are those in which the role of natural necessity is clearest, namely, the lives of the very poor.
By Wystan Hugh Auden