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Wystan Hugh Auden. The most famous aphorisms

As readers, we sometimes remind ourselves of those boys who paint mustaches on girls in advertising images.
In literature, vulgarity is preferable to insignificance, because even the cheapest port wine is better than tap water.
The impression of yourself never coincides with the opinion of others about you.
Every hero is mortal until he dies.
Geniuses are the happiest of mortals, because what they have to do is exactly the same as what they most want to do.
The only Greek god who does anything is Hephaestus, and even he is a lame cuckold.
If two people meet and talk, then the purpose of this conversation is not to exchange information or evoke emotions, but to hide behind words that emptiness, silence and loneliness in which a person exists.
Health is not the subject of medicine, and holiness is not the subject of theology.
The interests of the writer and the reader never coincide - except perhaps by a lucky coincidence.
When some idiot tells me that he liked my poem, I feel like I've reached into his pocket.
There are no smart operas, because people don't sing aloud in a loud voice when they are in their right mind.
An unimaginable number of Americans are engaged in work that seems boring to them. Even the rich man believes that he simply needs to go downstairs to the office every morning. Not because he likes it, but because he doesn't know what else to do.
Some books are undeservedly forgotten, but none are undeservedly remembered.
There is nothing worse than a bad poem that was meant to be great.
The father of the poem is the poet, the mother is the language.
The professor is the one who broadcasts in someone else's dream.
The hare is happy in the morning, for it is not given to him to know with what thoughts the hunter woke up.
The crowd does not love itself, nor everything that is outside of it.
Each person has his own distinctive smell, by which his wife, children, dogs recognize him. The crowd has a common, always equally bad smell. The audience is completely devoid of smell.
Man is a history-making being who can neither repeat his past nor get rid of it.
Readers can change the writer as much as they like, but the writer must always be faithful to the reader.
To join the crowd, it is not at all necessary to go outside - it is enough, while sitting at home, to open a newspaper or turn on the TV.
I do not understand why it is considered shameful to write for mass publications. As long as they don't interfere with your texts, of course. Of course, they can change a couple of words to make the text more understandable. It doesn't solve anything. But when they ask you to change the direction of your thoughts, this is already prostitution.

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