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Andrei, did you like the opera?"Not particularly."Andrei, do you see what you're missing?"I don't think I do, Kira. It's all rather silly. And useless."Can't you enjoy things that are useless, merely because they are beautiful?"No. But I enjoyed it."The music?"No. The way you listened to it.

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