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«In India, I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth, but not adhering to it, inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to them, possessing everything, but possessed by nothing»
«God has plans which mortals don't understand. He rests in the womb when the new baby forms. Whispers the life dream to infinitesimal cells. It is God who lies under the thoughts of man. He is cartilage. Memory.»
«Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.»
«Homer and Hesiod have ascribed to the gods all things that are a shame and a disgrace among mortals, stealing and adulteries and deceiving on one another»
«Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies»
«For you are goddesses, inside on everything, know everything. But we mortals hear only the news, and know nothing at all.»
«Let mortals beware of wordsFor with words we lieCan speak peaceWhen we mean warBut song is trueLet music for peaceBe the paradigmFor peace means changeAt the right time»
«Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.»
Author: W. H. Auden (Dramatist, Editor, Poet) | About: Genius | Keywords: geniuses, luckiest, mortals
«How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.»
«He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past»

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