"A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language."
-W. H. Auden
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"Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.“
-W. H. Auden
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"Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest."
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"Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods."
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"Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another."
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"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."
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"Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be."
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-Oscar Wilde
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"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
-Mahatma Gandhi
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"I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration."
-William P. Young
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"The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius."
-Oscar Wilde
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"I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance."
-Adlai E. Stevenson
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"Life is an adventure in forgiveness."
-Norman Cousins
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