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.
Quote by W. H. Auden
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No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
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We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know.
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
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To save your world you asked this man to die;
Would this man, could he see you now, ask why? -
A poet's hope: to be,
like some valley cheese,
local, but prized elsewhere.