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Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind. — W.H. Auden

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Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind.

W.H. Auden
1962
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The pastHistoryThe human condition
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1962
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W.H. Auden
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Auden, W. H. "D. H. Lawrence." The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays. Random House, 1962.

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