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• A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. -- W. H. Aude
• We are here on earth to do good for others. What the others are here for, I don't know.
  -- W. H. Auden....
• At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.
  -- Justice Anthony Kennedy...
• No poet or novelist wishes he was 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.
  -- W.H. Auden, "The Dyer's Hand...
• A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere. -- W. H. Aude
• The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.
  H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling. -- George Orwell...
• Those who will not reason, perish in the act. Those who will not act, perish for that reason.
  -- W. H. Auden, _Shorts_...
• No opera plot can be sensible, for in sensible situations people do not sing. --W H Aude
• One who puts into one's art what one has not been capable of putting into one's existence.
  It is because he was unhappy that God created the world. -- Henri de Montheria...