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“Verleugnen ist eine unscheinbare Varianten des Verrats. Von außen ist nichts zu sehen, ob einer verleugnet oder nur Diskretion übt, Rücksicht nimmt, Peinlichkeiten und Ärgerlichkeiten meidet. Aber der, der sich nicht bekennt, weiß es genau.”
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“He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that - and he must be about His Father's business, the service of a vast vulgar, and meretricious beauty ... and to this conception he was faithful to an end.”
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“I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don't tell truth, I tell what ought to be truth. And if that is sinful, then let me be damned for it!”
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“Ils ne m'ont pas pris ma vie, ils ont peut-être fait pire, ils me volent mon enfance, ils ont tué en moi l'enfant que je pouvais être.”
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“Our value never can be truly known till in the fisher's basket we be shown. I' th' market, then, my price may be the higher, even when I am nearest to fire. So to great men the moral may be stretched: 'Men oft are valued high, when th' are most wretched.”
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