“I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.”
Marcel Marceau (1923–2007) French mime and actor
The Guardian (London, 11 August 1988)
“In a person's lifetime there may be not more than half a dozen occasions that he can look back to in the certain knowledge that right then, at that moment, there was room for nothing but happiness in his heart.”
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