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The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews. Not to be born is the best for man. — W.H. Auden

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The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews. Not to be born is the best for man.

W.H. Auden
1937
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DesireThe human condition
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1937
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W.H. Auden
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Auden, W. H. Death's Echo. 1937.

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