A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
W. H. Auden
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Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
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