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'Once upon a time there was a lady. She had no children, and no happiness either. And at first she cried for a long time, but then she became wicked . . .'

— Mikhail Bulgakov The Master and Margarita (1967)

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The tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes never!

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Man is mortal and, as has rightly been said, unexpectedly mortal.

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