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Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled not for its own

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it. – Tom Stoppard

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Back in the East you cant do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power. – Tom Stoppard

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