W. H. Auden Quotes
Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
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I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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I was informed... that some... were dreaming and wished to return.
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Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
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I had the taste of the alcohol since I was 11. It allowed me to be clever, charming and to behave outrageously. Acting also allowed me not to be me. So I could indulge every fantasy in this paradise of America.
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Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.
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It's successful, middle-class Arab men and women, professionals with seemingly happy family lives, who are prepared to go to paradise for a greater cause. That's terrifying.
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To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.
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An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.
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We've gone too far in thinking we can re-create an American democratic paradise in the Middle East.
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Israel's days without Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip are gone and will not return.
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The myths have always condemned those who 'looked back.' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.
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There is no question that what we are seeing - the horrible advance of ISIS - goes back, if you will, to the original sin of the invasion of Iraq.
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I don't plan to return. I have a lot of unresolved things to do.
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What is there in 'Paradise Lost' to elevate and astonish like Herschel or Somerville?
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Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.
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Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.
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I found out there is a production paradise in Brazil. I was able to make my second collection for less money but without sacrificing quality. More importantly, manufacturing in Brazil also fits in with my global initiative: to provide work and empowerment in a third-world country.
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In about 1975-76, I lived with a woman in a little hut with some fruit trees, and I had some of the most extraordinary, happy times of my life. Apart from the horrendous Queensland police, who were corrupt and venal, it really was like living in paradise.
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Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.
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Let us not be so naive as to think that revolution is just a matter of social or economic discontent.
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Things you never thought were going to turn into something end up being the most important things in your life. You have to learn to not try to control it.
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Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
