We always speak well when we manage to be understood. - Moliere

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There are moments when you act that you actually disappear from your body, and that's amazing. That's better than any drug, I would imagine. People take drugs to disappear from themself, and that's what it feels like when you hit that moment.

Moliere

We always speak well when we manage to be understood.

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You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.

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Reason is not what decides love.

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When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.

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What! Would you make no distinction between hypocrisy and devotion? Would you give them the same names, and respect the mask as you do the face? Would you equate artifice and sincerity? Confound appearance with truth? Regard the phantom as the very person? Value counterfeit as cash?

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I don't want to succumb to the idea that for the generation, or generations, raised on television, the text is irrelevant or so intimidating that they won't deal with it. If you teach, you see this is not true. It may be that newer generations do not worship the text as some of their elders do.

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