Usefulness

Mar 20, 2007 11:22



"Everyone in his heart of hearts agrees with Baudelaire: 'To be a useful person has always seemed to me something particularly horrible,' for, subjectively, to be useful means to be doing not what one wants to do, but what someone else insists on one's doing. But at the same time, everyone is ashamed to admit in public that he is useless."

W.H. Auden
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