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Danglars was one of those calculating men who are born with a pen behind their ear and an inkwell instead of a heart.
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“The cynicism that regards hero worship as comical is always shadowed by a sense of physical inferiority.”
― Sun & Steel
― Sun & Steel
“Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a wet sponge wipes all the picture out; and that is far the most unhappy thing of all.
-Cassandra”
― The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
-Cassandra”
― The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
“To give a person an opinion one must first judge well whether that person is of the disposition to receive it or not.”
― Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
― Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
“CHORUS: Helen! wild mad Helen
you murdered so many beneath Troy.
Now you’ve crowned yourself one final perfect time,
a crown of blood that will not wash away.
Strife walks with you everywhere you go.
KLYTAIMESTRA: Oh, stop whining.
And why get angry at Helen?
As if she singlehandedly destroyed those multitudes of men.
As if she all alone made this wound in us”
― The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
you murdered so many beneath Troy.
Now you’ve crowned yourself one final perfect time,
a crown of blood that will not wash away.
Strife walks with you everywhere you go.
KLYTAIMESTRA: Oh, stop whining.
And why get angry at Helen?
As if she singlehandedly destroyed those multitudes of men.
As if she all alone made this wound in us”
― The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
“For me, beauty is always retreating from one’s grasp: the only thing I consider important is what existed once, or ought to have existed.”
― Sun & Steel
― Sun & Steel
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