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- Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man. — Friedrich Nietzsche
- The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. — George Bernard Shaw
- The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation. — Frances Burney
- Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure. — Frances Burney
- There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect and to have it ill treated, is to me worse, more cruel and wicked than anything on earth. — Frances Burney