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Selected Essays by W.H. Auden
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“The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.”
― W.H. Auden, Selected Essays

tags: doubt, intelligence, stimulus

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“Without art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without science, we should always worship false gods.”
― W.H. Auden, Selected Essays

tags: art, sacred, science, worship

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“Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.”
― W.H. Auden, Selected Essays

tags: autobiography, perception, sense-of-self

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