| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 4708 |
| QUOTATION: | what evil is: not as we thought
Deeds that must be punished, but our lack of faith,
Our dishonest mood of denial,
The concupiscence of the oppressor. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907–1973), Anglo-American poet, essayist. In Memory of Sigmund Freud (l. 57–60). . .
Juvenilia; Poems, 1922-1928 [W. H. Auden]. Katherine Bucknell, ed. (1994) Princeton University Press. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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