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"Wellsted will remember this moment for the rest of his life. It is the first time he desires something for himself that is not dedicated to his own advancement. It is the moment he falls in love."

"Fear is the greatest enemy; the father of all suffering, and love is the only cure for humanity's great afflictions."

"It is a great joy to love and be loved."
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"I don't know why people keep banging on about the '60s. I came from a conventional family and I didn't go off with different people - I rather wish I had now, seeing all the fun everyone else was having."

"He painted me when I was young because he was in love with me, but now that he has loved me he doesn't paint me anymore."

"I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries."

"My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust."

"If I were mayor, I'd invite everyone to have free boat trips on the river and free balloon rides over the city. I'd let the elderly in residential homes wander free."

"I grind my teeth and keep my thumbs in so tight that I've dislocated them, just not to scream. Sometimes as an actor one is lucky enough to be asked to scream."

"Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys' author, but he's not at all."

"Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing."
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