One passes through the world knowing few, if any, of the important things about even the people with whom one has been ... in the closest intimacy.
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On the stage ... masks are assumed with some regard to procedure in everyday life, the participants act their parts without consideration either for suitability of scene or for the words spoken by the rest of the cast the result is a general tendency for things to be brought to the level of farce even when the theme is serious enough.Anthony Dymoke Powell
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