To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
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Intellectual disgrace; Stares from every human face, And the seas of pity lie; Locked and frozen in each eye.W. H. Auden
Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
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My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.
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No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.
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Political history is far too criminal and pathological to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villains from fiction.
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Now is the age of anxiety.
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