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| W.H. Auden Quotes | No. | Quotation | Subject |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation. | Addiction |
| 2 | A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. | Books |
| 3 | Healing, Papa would tell me, is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing Nature. | Convalescence |
| 4 | And none will hear the postman's knock without a quickening of the heart. For who can bear to feel himself forgotten? | Correspondence |
| 5 | A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like the surgeon, a craftsman, or, like the physician and the psychologist, an artist. . . . This means that in order to be a good doctor a man must also have a good character, that is to say, whatever weaknesses and foibles he may have, he must love his fellow human beings in the concrete and desire their good before his own. | Doctors |
| 6 | Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me wishing it were. | Desire |
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