There is no such thing as the State And no one exists alone Hunger allows no choice To the citizen or the police We must love one another or die.
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Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
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Lay your sleeping head, my love, Human on my faithless arm.
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Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really is my enemy, that I am free to marry a woman when in fact she is my mother, that this person is a chambermaid when it is a young nobleman in disguise. . .
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