The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Quote by W H Auden

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If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to...

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to...

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.

Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores.

Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores.

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me

When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate...

When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate...

One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.

One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.

In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be...

In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be...

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our...

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our...

No hero is immortal till he dies

No hero is immortal till he dies

The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

Let mortals beware of words For with words we lie Can speak peace When we...

Let mortals beware of words For with words we lie Can speak peace When we...

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say

For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?

For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?

He was my North, my South, my East and West.

He was my North, my South, my East and West.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of...

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of...

We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.

We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.

I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.

I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual...

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual...

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are...

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are...