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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
W. H. Auden
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W. H. Auden
Age: 66 †
Born: 1907
Born: February 21
Died: 1973
Died: September 28
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Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were.
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Soft as the earth is mankind and both need to be altered.
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