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[Speaking of the Grand Eunuc])... a position not acquired without certain, shall we say, sacrifice.
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Antony is dead? You say that as if it were an everyday occurrence. The soup is hot, the soup is cold. Antony is alive, Antony is dead.
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Everything that I shall ever want to hold or look upon or have or be is here now with you.
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For so long now you have filled my life...like...like a great noise that I hear everywhere in my heart. I want to be free of you. Of wanting you. Of being afraid. But I will never...be free of you.
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From the first instant I saw you, entering Rome on that monstrous stone beast, shining in the sun like a little gold toy how I envied Caesar. Went suddenly sick with it. Not his conquests or his triumphs. Not his titles of the mob. I envied him you.
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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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How it hurts. How love can stab the heart.
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How many have loved you since him? One? Ten? Anyone? No one? Have they kissed you with Caesar's lips? Touched you with his hands? Is it his name you cry out in the dark? And afterwards, alone, has he reproached you and have you begged forgiveness of his memory?
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I am Caesar.
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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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I do not understand why the eyes of a statue should always lack life.
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I will not be told where I can go and where I cannot go!
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Lovers always want so much never to have loved before...It becomes a game. Who loved whom first?
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Octavian, when I am ready to die, I will die.
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Remind him as always to keep his Legions intact, for they make the law legal.