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

W. H. Auden · Music

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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

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History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

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Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

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'Healing, ' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

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