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W.H. Auden, The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue Quotes: We would rather be ruined than changedWe would rather die in our dreadThan climb the cross of the momentAnd let our illusions die.
         

We would rather be ruined than changedWe would rather die in our dreadThan climb the cross of the momentAnd let our illusions die.


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