Like everything which is no... by W. H. Auden, an English Poet

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“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.”

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Name: W. H. Auden

Nationality: English

Date of Birth: Feb 21, 1907

Date of Death: Sep 29, 1973

Profession: Poet

Theodore Martin Walter Savage Landor Arthur Chapman

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Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.

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