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To what purpose should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery continually before my eyes?

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I have no money, no resources, and no hope. I am the happiest man alive.

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I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful.

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Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

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An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

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I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

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I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.

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Those who enjoy such freedoms as we enjoy, forget in time that men died to earn them.

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True strength lies in gentleness.

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The passing of an ordinary man is sad. The passing of a great man is tragic, and doubly tragic when the greatness passes before the man does.

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