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This village belongs to the Castle, and whoever lives here or passes the night here does so in a manner of speaking in the Castle itself. Nobody may do that without the Count's permission.

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I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more

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There's no quiet place here on earth for our love, not in the village and not anywhere else, so I picture a grave, deep and narrow, in which we embrace as if clamped together, I bury my face against you, you yours against me, and no one will ever see us.

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If a man has his eyes bound, you can encourage him as much as you like to stare through the bandage, but he'll never see anything

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One must fight to get to the top, especially if one starts at the bottom.

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No matter how much you keep encouraging someone who is blindfolded to stare through the cloth, he still won't see a thing.".

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Officials are highly educated but one-sided; in his own department an official can grasp whole trains of thought from a single word, but let him have something from another department explained to him... he won't understand a word of it.

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Born: July 3, 1883
Died: June 3, 1924 (aged 40)
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