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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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Human beings are, necessarily, actors who...can be divided...into the sane who know they are acting and the mad who do not.
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We must love one another or die
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Does God judge us by appearances? I Suspect that He does.
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A small grove massacred to the last ash, An oak with heart-rot, give away the show: This great society is going to smash They cannot fool us with how fast they go, How much they cost each other and the gods. A culture is no better than its woods.
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