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“I act like someone in a bomb shelter trying to raise everyone’s spirits.”
― The Princess Diarist
― The Princess Diarist
“Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.”
― The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
― The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
“Sic transit gloria mundi.”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
“SPQR takes its title from another famous Roman catchphrase, Senatus PopulusQue Romanus, ‘The Senate and People of Rome’.”
― SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
― SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
“I confide in everyone. I have no restricted private self, reserved specifically for certain trusted special people. I trust and mistrust anyone. I have traveled a full circle. But this time, on returning to zero again, I am able to act out the mistake more adeptly. I am on my way to becoming a very skilled loser. A specialist, a loser to end all losers. A flair for failing. I do it with style and finesse.”
― The Princess Diarist
― The Princess Diarist
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