Creation Quote by W. H. Auden

“Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.”

W. H. Auden

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I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.

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One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.

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