What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating.
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Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy --common clay, if you like --eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies people who just live ordinary people people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others --the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes.Jean Anouilh
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