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

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Source : Wystan Hugh Auden (2011). “The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue”, p.105, Princeton University Press

W. H. Auden

#Change Quotes #Growth Quotes #Religion Quotes

“Some people want to amass a great amount of wealth and make a great looking obituary. I'm going to die with more money than is good to leave my son.”
“I encourage all of you to discover ever more fully in the Eucharist, the sacrament of Christ's sacrificial love, the inspiration and strength needed to work ever more generously for the spread of God's Kingdom and the growth of the civilization of love”
“The nuttes schell, thocht it be hard and teuch,Haldis the kirnill, and is delectabill.Sa lyis thair ane doctrine wyse aneuch,And full of fruit, under ane fenyeit Fabill.”
“All our knowledge is the offspring of our perceptions.”
“If this is long delayed, weapons are blunted and morale depressed.”
“I'd trained to be a diplomat but the state department said I was too liberal. I saw an ad in the New York Times ... a hack Californian editor came to New York to butcher some films and he needed an assistant. For some reason I read it that day and it changed my life. I went to work for him and he was horrible, butchering these masterpieces by Antonioni, Visconti, but I learned enough to know what he was doing wrong.”

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“With the physical mindset I play the game with, I expect to get hurt.”
“One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going.”

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