"Some thirty inches from my noseThe frontier of my Person goes,And all the untilled air betweenIs private pagus or demesne.Stranger, unless with bedroom eyesI beckon you to fraternize,Beware of rudely crossing it:I have no gun, but I can spit."

Identity, Boundaries, Self, Space

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"Some thirty inches from my noseThe frontier of my Person goes,And all the untilled air betweenIs private pagus or demesne.Stranger, unless with bedroom eyesI beckon you to fraternize,Beware of rudely crossing it:I have no gun, but I can spit."

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"She looks like a very young old person, or a very old young person; but then, she's looked that way ever since she was two."

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"She suddenly remembered studying the brain in science class- how a steel rod pierced a man's skull, and he opened his mouth to speak Portuguese, a language he'd never studied. Maybe it would be like this, now, for Josie. Maybe her native tongue, from here on in, would be a string of lies."

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"What is YOUR personal brand? How are you packaging your unique talents, style, personality and/or products to represent who you are, what you do, and how you show yourself to the world?"

Susan C. Young, American Author

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Elizabeth George, American Author

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"You are special creation."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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Explore more quotes by W. H. Auden

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

Mistake

"Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind."

History

"It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen."

Society

"Cathedrals Luxury liners laden with souls Holding to the east their hulls of stone."

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"The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition."

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"Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered."

Books

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