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"Today I looked at a map of Vienna, for a moment it seemed incomprehensible to me that they would build such a huge city when you only need one room."

Wow alright man

"This will serve as a foretaste to that torment of hell which consists in having to review one’s entire life with the knowledge that comes of hindsight, where the worst thing is not the confrontation with obvious misdeeds but with deeds one once considered worthy."

You can say that again

OK interactive/history non-fiction? wth sign me up

Nero kidnapping people inside his theater while performing as a woman going into labor is somehow not one of the most deranged things I've learned from this book so far.

"We also read about men being so bored with the music and the applause that they furtively dropped down from the wall at the back, or even shammed dead and got themselves carried away to be buried."

Sublime.

"For if only one-tenth of the stories which have made Messalina a byword for lasciviousness are true, she was phenomenally oversexed."

Crazy unhinged gossip going on in this book. Loving it.

"He couldn't help remembering how much he'd wanted a puppy when he was a little boy. Mind you, they'd been starving—anything with meat on it would have done."

"Lady Ramkin was one of those people who assumed that everyone else knew everyone one knew."

"The die is cast" How's there no movie of this??