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“If people marry on the assumption that love must always overcome obstacles, they will either become unfaithful or they will make things difficult. The better you know someone, the better you can torture him: man and wife become each other's devils.”

Quote by W.H. Auden

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Lectures on Shakespeare

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W.H. Auden

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