What I'm not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time.

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I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really - one has to ask oneself - what dignity is there in that?

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You have to accept that sometimes that's how things happen in this world. People's opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process.

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After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?

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We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.

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The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.

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You say you’re sure? Sure that you’re in love? How can you know it? You think love is so simple?

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Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?

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Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.

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All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.

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