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Evil is unspectacular and always human, And shares our bed and eats at our table. — W.H. Auden

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Evil is unspectacular and always human, And shares our bed and eats at our table.

W.H. Auden
1940
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Nature of evilEvil
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1940
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W.H. Auden
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Auden, W. H. "Herman Melville." Another Time. Faber and Faber/Random House, 1940.

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