"A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language."
-W. H. Auden
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"Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.“
-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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-Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance."
-Jane Austen
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"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."
-Mignon McLaughlin
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"To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it Whenever you're right, shut up."
-Ogden Nash
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"A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished."
-Zsa Zsa Gabor
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"Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats."
-Woody Allen
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