December 2010
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In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, and never...
– The Bridges of Madison County
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There are two great days in a person’s life - the day we are born and the...
– William Barclay
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No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
– Oscar Wilde
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Clear, unscaleable ahead,
Rise the mountains of instead
From whose cold,...
– W H Auden
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Over the tea-cups and in the square the tongue has its desire; Still waters run...
– W H Auden
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The glacier knocks in the cupboard,
The desert sighs in the bed,
And the crack...
– W H Auden
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Behind the corpse in the reservoir, behind the ghost on the links,
Behind the...
– W H Auden
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A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
– W. H. Auden
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You owe it to all of us to get on with what you’re good at.
– W. H. Auden
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I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is...
– W. H. Auden
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The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.
– W. H. Auden
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What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it...
– Henry David Thoreau
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469. Stay in your seat until the credits have...
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468. When entrusted with a secret, keep it.