"Only in mirrors should one look, for mirrors do but show us masks."

"Kings ought never to pledge their word."

Herod

"Well I know that thou wouldst have loved me, and the mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death."

"Kill that woman!"

Herod

"They say that love hath a bitter taste."

"How beautiful is the Princess Salomé to-night!"

The young Syrian

"Jokanaan, I am amorous of thy body!"

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