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Gaston Bachelard

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"Of course. The end of the world can wait.(Kasabian)
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DANA SPIOTTA Nothing in the world matters if you don't matter.
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ANATOLE BROYARD Don’t put off till tomorrow anyone you could be doing today.
EMMA CHASE The end of this world looks closer
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GASTON BACHELARD How concrete everything becomes in the world of the spirit when an object, a mere door, can give ima...
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GASTON LEROUX ... My mother, daroga, my poor, unhappy mother would never... let me kiss her... She used to run awa...
GASTON LEROUX ...the girl with the tip-tilted nose, the forget-me-not eyes, the rose red cheeks
and the lily-...
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GASTON LEROUX why do you condemn a man whom you have never met, whom no one knows and about whom even you yourself...
GASTON LEROUX When a woman has seen me, as you have, she belongs to me. She loves me forever.
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GASTON LEROUX Our lives are one masked ball.
GASTON LEROUX He stared dully at the desolate, cold road and the pale, dead night. Nothing was colder or more dead...
GASTON LEROUX But do you love me? If Erik were good-looking, would you love me, Christine?
GASTON LEROUX And, despite the care which she took to look behind her at every moment, she failed to see a shadow ...
GASTON LEROUX Holy angel, in Heaven blessed,
My spirit longs with thee to rest
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GASTON LEROUX Erik: Are you very tired?
Christine: Oh, tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead.
Erik: ...
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GASTON LEROUX All I wanted was to be loved for myself." (Erik)
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CITO GASTON I remember he wore us out. He made some great, great catches on us.
CITO GASTON He was serving pretty well today,
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GASTON GAUDIO I think I've always had it in me. I just haven't been able to put it together for a whole match.
GASTON GAUDIO He was better than me today. I didn't do anything.
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