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I just want to know true joy

Not everything shiny is golden

The real folk blues

I just want to know true sadness

A life soaked in the muddy river is not bad

If it will all end once

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“If the future was so vague it meant perhaps that she was destined never to see it.”

— W. Somerset Maugham, excerpt from The Painted Veil

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“I had no illusions about you.”

The Painted Veil directed by John Curran based on the 1935 novel of the same name by W. Somerset Maugham

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Kitty Fane: For God’s sake, Walter, will you stop punishing me? Do you absolutely despise me?

Walter Fane: No. I despise myself.

Kitty Fane: Why?

Walter Fane: For allowing myself to love you once.

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Naomi Watts and Edward Norton in “The Painted Veil” (2006), 

dir. John Curran

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The painted veil (2007)

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Naomi Watts as Kitty Fane in “The Painted Veil” (2006), dir. John Curran

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Naomi Watts as Kitty Fane in “The Painted Veil” (2006), dir. John Curran

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“It's silly, really. They'll die in a week. It's hardly worth the cost. What do you think?”

“I think they’re quite nice”

“Really? I think you're right.”

The Painted Veil (2006) | Dir. John Curran

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The Painted Veil (2006) Dir. John Curran 

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Angela Lansbury, c.1945

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i have no idea what's going on in my life im just in charge of the music

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Pat Cleveland with Muhammad Ali (1966)

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Tyrone Power in The Razor’s Edge, 1946. Directed by Edmund Goulding.

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“Let them judge you. Let them misunderstand you. Let them gossip about you. Their opinions aren’t your problems. You stay kind, committed to love and free in your authenticity. No matter what they do or say, don’t you doubt your worth or the beauty of your truth. Just keep shining like you always do.”

— Scott Stabile

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Louise Brooks

1930

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Another Country (1984) dir. Marek Kanievska