Angela Carter - Nights at the Circus (1984)

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We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.

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The child's laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown.

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The clown may be the source of mirth, but - who shall make the clown laugh?

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To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with.

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Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.

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In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.

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Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different!

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The one-eyed man will be King in the country of the blind only if he arrives there in full possession of his partial faculties--that is, providing he is perfectly aware of the precise nature of sight and does not confuse it with second sightnor with madness.

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And, conversely, she went on to herself, sneering at the Grand Duke's palace, poverty is wasted on the poor, who never know how to make the best of things, are only the rich without money, are just as useless at looking after themselves, can't handle their cash just like the rich can't, always squandering it on bright, pretty, useless things in just the same way.

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