Wystan Hugh Auden

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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
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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.
Weep for the lives your wishes never led.
To ask the hard question is simple.
The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
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.
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
Goodness is easier to recognize than to define.
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
As a rule it was the pleasure haters that became unjust.
All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation.

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