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  • #1
    W.H. Auden
    The More Loving One

    Looking up at the stars, I know quite well
    That, for all they care, I can go to hell,
    But on earth indifference is the least
    We have to dread from man or beast.

    How should we like it were stars to burn
    With a passion for us we could not return?
    If equal affection cannot be,
    Let the more loving one be me.

    Admirer as I think I am
    Of stars that do not give a damn,
    I cannot, now I see them, say
    I missed one terribly all day.

    Were all stars to disappear or die,
    I should learn to look at an empty sky
    And feel its total dark sublime,
    Though this might take me a little time.”
    W.H. Auden, Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957

  • #2
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #3
    Albert Camus
    “Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”
    Albert Camus

  • #4
    Albert Camus
    “Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth”
    Albert Camus

  • #5
    Gary Paulsen
    “I read like a wolf eats.
    I read myself to sleep every night.”
    Gary Paulsen

  • #6
    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

  • #7
    Oscar Wilde
    “A good friend will always stab you in the front.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #8
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am not young enough to know everything.”
    Oscar Wilde
    tags: age

  • #9
    Oscar Wilde
    “You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #10
    Oscar Wilde
    “I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #11
    Oscar Wilde
    “Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #12
    A.A. Milne
    “One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.”
    A.A. Milne

  • #13
    John Burroughs
    “Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.”
    John Burroughs, Studies in Nature and Literature

  • #14
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    Mae West

  • #15
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost

  • #16
    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    Mark Twain

  • #17
    William Shakespeare
    “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
    William Shakespear, Hamlet

  • #18
    Lord Byron
    “All who joy would win
    Must share it -- Happiness was born a twin.”
    George Gordon Byron, Don Juan

  • #19
    Lord Byron
    “There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
    There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
    There is society, where none intrudes,
    By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
    I love not man the less, but Nature more”
    Lord Byron

  • #20
    Lord Byron
    “The great object of life is sensation- to feel that we exist, even though in pain.”
    Lord Byron

  • #21
    Lord Byron
    “There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.”
    George Gordon Byron

  • #22
    Lord Byron
    “You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?”
    George Gordon Byron

  • #23
    Lord Byron
    “Friendship is love without wings.”
    George Gordon Byron

  • #24
    Lord Byron
    “Adversity is the first path to truth.”
    Lord Byron

  • #25
    John Ruskin
    “Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.”
    John Ruskin

  • #26
    John Ruskin
    “All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.”
    John Ruskin, The Elements of Drawing

  • #27
    John Ruskin
    “Modern traveling is not traveling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.”
    John Ruskin

  • #28
    John Ruskin
    “To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty”
    John Ruskin, The Seven Lamps of Architecture
    tags: art, truth

  • #29
    John Ruskin
    “The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things — not merely industrious, but to love industry — not merely learned, but to love knowledge — not merely pure, but to love purity — not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice.”
    John Ruskin, Unto This Last and Other Writings

  • #30
    Jack Kerouac
    “I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.”
    Jack Kerouac



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