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“Part came from Lane, and part from D.H. Lawrence; Gide, though I didn't know it then, gave part. They taught me to express my deep abhorrence If I caught anyone preferring Art To Life and Love and being Pure-in-heart. I lived with crooks but seldom was molested; The Pure-in-heart can never be arrested.”

Book:Letters from Iceland

Source: Letters from Iceland

“The wolves will get you if the moths won't.”

Life Living Carpe Diem

Book:The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue

Source: The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue

“Life remains a blessing Although you cannot bless.”

Love Life Spirituality Blessing Blessed

Book:As I Walked Out One Evening: Songs, Ballads, Lullabies, Limericks & Other Light Verse

Source: As I Walked Out One Evening: Songs, Ballads, Lullabies, Limericks & Other Light Verse

“The answer that I cannot find Is known to my unconscious mind I have no reason to despair Because I am already there”

Life Beauty Becoming Being

Author:W.H. Auden

“So I wish you first a Sense of theatre; only Those who love illusion And know it will go far: Otherwise we spend our Lives in a confusion Of what we say and do with Who we really are.”

Life Illusion Theatre Confusion Birthday Auden Who Are We W H Auden

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