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W. H. Auden

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Pendidikan

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

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Kehidupan

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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Cinta

I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.

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Cinta

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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Cinta

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

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Cinta

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.

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Seni

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

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Kreativitas

Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.

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Kreativitas

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.

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Kreativitas

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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Kegagalan

When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.

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Kehidupan

A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.

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Kreativitas

Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.

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