Cleopatra quotes
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The corridors are dark, gentlemen… but you mustn't be afraid. I am with you.
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We must not disappoint the mighty Caesar! The Romans tell fabulous tales of my baths and handmaidens... and my morals!
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I will not be told where I can go and where I cannot go!
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I am the Nile. I will have sons. Isis has told me… My breasts are full of love and life. My hips are rounded and well apart. Such women, they say, have sons.
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How dare you and the rest of your barbarians set fire to my library? Play conqueror all you want, Mighty Caesar! Rape, murder, pillage thousands, millions of human beings! But neither you nor any other barbarian has the right to destroy one human thought!
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There are never enough hours in the days of a queen, and her nights have too many.
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We'll make this our beginning. Beginning with tonight... You must never envy Caesar, or anyone, anything else again.
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How it hurts. How love can stab the heart.
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That’s how Romans frighten little girls. They like to frighten little girls!
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[On Antony's death] Strange, there has never been... such a silence.
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Octavian, when I am ready to die, I will die.
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[After the Asp has bitten her] How strangely awake I feel. As if living had been just a long dream. Someone else’s dream. Now finished at last...