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“You've made a beast of yourself,- to the beasts you may go.”
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“I had half a mind to drown myself then; but an odd wish to see the whole adventure out, a queer, impersonal, spectacular interest in myself, restrained me.”
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“And still you wonder why your heart
is anxious and your breast constricted,
why a pain you cannot account for
inhibits your vitality completely!
You are surrounded, not by the living world
in which God placed mankind,
but, amid smoke and mustiness,
only by bones of beasts and of the dead.”
― Faust
is anxious and your breast constricted,
why a pain you cannot account for
inhibits your vitality completely!
You are surrounded, not by the living world
in which God placed mankind,
but, amid smoke and mustiness,
only by bones of beasts and of the dead.”
― Faust
“What glitters, lives but for the moment; what has real worth, survives for all posterity.”
― Faust
― Faust
“What's it all for, Prendick? Are we bubbles blown by a baby?”
― The Island of Doctor Moreau
― The Island of Doctor Moreau
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