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The Illegals: Russia's Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the West
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“I am working on cases of huge importance and hold the fate of several people in my hands, and at the same time I am beset by exhaustion and periods of depression. I am working through nervous energy and forced willpower alone. I no longer
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“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
― Jingo
― Jingo
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Twilight of the Idols
― Twilight of the Idols
“It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.”
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“I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That's the two categories. The horrible are like, I don't know, terminal cases, you know, and blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life. It's amazing to me. And the miserable is everyone else. So you should be thankful that you're miserable, because that's very lucky, to be miserable.”
― Annie Hall: Screenplay
― Annie Hall: Screenplay
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