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“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
― Franz Kafka

“According to the stories, you could go in there any night and see men close-dancing, rubbing their cocks”
― Stephen King, It

“The three golden balls were above his head. The entrance to the shop (not so good a one as Mr. Rabinowitz’s but a pawnshop all the same, with a cash-register in the rear) was shuttered with a grey iron gate, fixed with a padlock.”
― Charles Jackson, The Lost Weekend

“Yes, he was found hanging in the third-floor cellar!” “It’s the ghost!” little Giry blurted, as though in spite of herself; but she at once corrected herself, with her hands pressed to her mouth: “No, no!—I didn’t say it!—I didn’t say it!——” All around her, her panic-stricken companions repeated under their breaths: “Yes—it must be the ghost!” Sorelli was very pale.”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera