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“And empty words are evil.”
― The Odyssey
― The Odyssey
“Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.”
― The Count of Monte Cristo
― The Count of Monte Cristo
“There is no future, there is no past, I live this moment as my last”
― Rent: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Musical―Complete Libretto and Oral History
― Rent: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Musical―Complete Libretto and Oral History
“There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty -unless she is wed to something more meaningful -is always superficial”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“My every impulse bends to what is right”
― The Odyssey
― The Odyssey
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