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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....
• We must love one another or die. -- W.H. Auden -- September 1, 1939
• To save your world you asked this man to die; Would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
  -- W. H. Auden (1907-1973), Epitaph for an Unknown Soldie...
• A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere. -- W. H. Aude
• 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
• The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.
  H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling. -- George Orwell...
• When one has great gifts, what answer to the meaning of existence should one require beyond the right to exercise them?
  -- W. H. Aude...