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W.H. Auden, Selected Essays Quotes: Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
         

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.


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