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Only animals who are below civilization and the angels who are beyond it can be sincere. Human beings are, necessarily, actors who cannot become something before they have first pretended to be it; and they can be divided, not into the hypocritical and the sincere, but into the sane who know they are acting and the mad who do not.
W. H. Auden (1907–1973) Anglo-American poet [Wystan Hugh Auden]
The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue, Part 5 “The Masque” (1947)More about this quote: wist.info/auden-w-h/86043/
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Only animals who are below civilization and the angels who are beyond it can be sincere. Human beings are, necessarily, actors who cannot become something before they have first pretended to be it; and they can be divided, not into the hypocritical and the sincere, but into the sane who know they are acting and the mad who do not.
W. H. Auden (1907–1973) Anglo-American poet [Wystan Hugh Auden]
The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue, Part 5 “The Masque” (1947)More about this quote: wist.info/auden-w-h/86043/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #auden #whauden #acting #deception #habit #humannature #humanity #hypocrisy #imitation #insincerity #masks #pretense #selfchange #selfdeception #selfimprovement #sincerity #practice #humanbehavior
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Only animals who are below civilization and the angels who are beyond it can be sincere. Human beings are, necessarily, actors who cannot become something before they have first pretended to be it; and they can be divided, not into the hypocritical and the sincere, but into the sane who know they are acting and the mad who do not.
W. H. Auden (1907–1973) Anglo-American poet [Wystan Hugh Auden]
The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue, Part 5 “The Masque” (1947)More about this quote: wist.info/auden-w-h/86043/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #auden #whauden #acting #deception #habit #humannature #humanity #hypocrisy #imitation #insincerity #masks #pretense #selfchange #selfdeception #selfimprovement #sincerity #practice #humanbehavior
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Only animals who are below civilization and the angels who are beyond it can be sincere. Human beings are, necessarily, actors who cannot become something before they have first pretended to be it; and they can be divided, not into the hypocritical and the sincere, but into the sane who know they are acting and the mad who do not.
W. H. Auden (1907–1973) Anglo-American poet [Wystan Hugh Auden]
The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue, Part 5 “The Masque” (1947)More about this quote: wist.info/auden-w-h/86043/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #auden #whauden #acting #deception #habit #humannature #humanity #hypocrisy #imitation #insincerity #masks #pretense #selfchange #selfdeception #selfimprovement #sincerity #practice #humanbehavior
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Only animals who are below civilization and the angels who are beyond it can be sincere. Human beings are, necessarily, actors who cannot become something before they have first pretended to be it; and they can be divided, not into the hypocritical and the sincere, but into the sane who know they are acting and the mad who do not.
W. H. Auden (1907–1973) Anglo-American poet [Wystan Hugh Auden]
The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue, Part 5 “The Masque” (1947)More about this quote: wist.info/auden-w-h/86043/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #auden #whauden #acting #deception #habit #humannature #humanity #hypocrisy #imitation #insincerity #masks #pretense #selfchange #selfdeception #selfimprovement #sincerity #practice #humanbehavior