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Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.


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There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter.



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A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.



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It's the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.



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My heart's in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand's in the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught.



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Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist.



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The time for reasoning is past; now's the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.

The time for reasoning is past; now's the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.



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