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“Our lives are one masked ball.”
― The Phantom of the Opera
― The Phantom of the Opera
“There is some music that is so terrible that it consumes all those who approach it.”
― The Phantom of the Opera
― The Phantom of the Opera
“This will destroy that. The book will kill the edifice.”
― The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
― The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
“munca alungă din preajma noastră trei mari rele: plictiseala, viciul şi nevoia.”
― Candide
― Candide
“Besides, to be fair to him, his viciousness was perhaps not innate. From his earliest steps among men he had felt, then seen himself the object of jeers, condemnation, rejection. Human speech for him always meant mockery and curses. As he grew older he had found nothing but hatred around him. He had caught it. He had acquired the general viciousness. He had picked up the weapon with which he had been wounded.”
― Notre-Dame de Paris
― Notre-Dame de Paris
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