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"We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed."
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"Of course we're friends ... we are both civilized men, aren't we? We've shared bed and board and bottle. We'll always be friends, and the dog collar I have on you will always be ignored by mutual consent, and I'll take good and benevolent care of you. All I ask in return is your soul. Small item. We can even ignore the fact that you've handed it over, the way we ignore the dog collar."

"May it not be that he loves chaos and destruction (there can be no disputing that he does sometimes love it) because he is instinctively afraid of attaining his object and completing the edifice he is constructing? Who knows, perhaps he only loves that edifice from a distance, and is by no means in love with it at close quarters; perhaps he only loves building it and does not want to live in it, but will leave it, when completed..."

"In the world of lovers, there is no fear."

"I never feel unsafe except for when the majority is on my side."
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"When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman."

"Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do."

"When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman."

"Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates."

"The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one."
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