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Now at last I know why I was brought here and what I have to do.


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Yes, I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and that one broken, sad as a woman who is growing old. Sad, sad, sad.

Yes, I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and that one broken, sad as a woman who is growing old. Sad, sad, sad.



You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone. We are alone in the most beautiful place in the world.

You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone. We are alone in the most beautiful place in the world.



A room is, after all, a place where you hide from the wolves. That's all any room is.

A room is, after all, a place where you hide from the wolves. That's all any room is.



The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.

The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.



I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness.

I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness.



I am the only real truth I know.

I am the only real truth I know.



Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone.

Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone.



I've been so ridiculous all my life that a little bit more or a little bit less hardly matters now.

I've been so ridiculous all my life that a little bit more or a little bit less hardly matters now.



Love was a terrible thing. You poisoned it and stabbed at it and knocked it down into the mud - well down - and it got up and staggered on, bleeding and muddy and awful. Like - like Rasputin.

Love was a terrible thing. You poisoned it and stabbed at it and knocked it down into the mud - well down - and it got up and staggered on, bleeding and muddy and awful. Like - like Rasputin.



We can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky - and it would be so much less fun if we were... There must be the dark background to show up the bright colours.

We can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky - and it would be so much less fun if we were... There must be the dark background to show up the bright colours.





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Proper deformity shows not in the fiendSo horrid as in woman.



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The terrible shock of his sentence had in some way broken that wall which separates us from the mystery of things beyond and which we call life.



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I think more important than law is the hearts of people.




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