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“Oh, I've always been proud, I've always wanted all or nothing! And that's precisely why I'm not for half-measures in happiness, but wanted everything”

“Oh, and I too have been unhappy! I was cast aside by everyone, cast aside and forgotten, and no one, no one knows it! I thought that she knew everything, but meanwhile the secret remained only in this man's breast! I went on being silent, and I was particularly, particularly silent with her until just yesterday - why was I silent? Because I'm a proud man.”

“And I'm a master of speaking silently - all my life I've spoken silently and I've lived through entire tragedies in silence.”

“…if you're going to judge a person, then you should judge him knowing the case ... Listen.”

“You know, that's a most voluptuous thought, when you no longer have any doubt.”

“the great works of Goethe shine even on the brink of ruin. Youth is always magnanimous, if only ever so slightly and ever so distortedly.”

“Oh, sincerity! That’s what they win you over with!”

“I am part of that part of the whole that desires evil, but creates good…”

“That's the horror of it for me, that I understand everything!”