Quotes by W.H. Auden

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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 see our illusions die. “

-W.H. Auden-

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

Without art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without science, we should always worship false gods.

The friends who met here and embraced are gone,Each to his own mistake;

We must love one another or die

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

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