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More from Wystan Hugh Auden

  1. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation.

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  2. The truly tragic kind of suffering is the kind produced and defiantly insisted upon by the hero himself so that, instead of making him better, it makes him wor…

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  3. No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

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