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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#bed #eats #evil #human #our

Music is the best means we have of digesting time. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#best #digesting #means #time

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#love #thousands #water #without

Learn from your dreams what you lack. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#lack #learn #our dreams #you #your

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#entirely #great #men #mightier #pen

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#bread #breaking #chief #dead #means

To underestimate one's thirst, to pass a given landmark to the right or left, to find a dry spring where one looked for running water - there is no help for any of these things. ↗

— Mary Austin

#dry #find #given #help #landmark

Every time we make the decision to love someone, we open ourselves to great suffering, because those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. The greatest pain comes from leaving. When the child leaves home, when the husband or wife leaves for a long period of time or for good, when the beloved friend departs to another country or dies … the pain of the leaving can tear us apart. Still, if we want to avoid the suffering of leaving, we will never experience the joy of loving. And love is stronger than fear, life stronger than death, hope stronger than despair. We have to trust that the risk of loving is always worth taking. ↗

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

#love #pain #death

No, my publisher has always done the marketing. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#done #marketing #publisher

It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning. ↗

— Frank Auerbach

#following #madness #may #me #morning