| 1 | ->...his daughter who died of Pale Complexion Disease That Does Not Compromise Attractiveness...'' |
| 2 | -->-- Blogger '''[[http://marionettasusette.tumblr.com/post/95925991322/hi-so-i-decided-that-my-darmatic-readings-persona marionettasusette]]''', describing a character |
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| 4 | ->''You'd have to pay me to sleep with the Dame Aux Camélias.'' |
| 5 | -->-- '''Pierre Auguste Renoir''', ''Renoir, My Father'' |
| 6 | |
| 7 | ->''"Pretty people with terminal illnesses."'' |
| 8 | -->--'''Blog/WorstMuse''' |
| 9 | |
| 10 | ->In Victorian romance novels, female characters had a tendency to get sick all the time. Tuberculosis was the main culprit because it made your character "pale and weak with a tendency towards falling luxuriously onto nearby furniture" so Lucy catching Victorian fainting lady disease wouldn't have raised to many eyebrows at the time. |
| 11 | -->--'''Red''' on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fT0efeSIx4 Dracula]], ''WebAnimation/OverlySarcasticProductions'' |
| 12 | |
| 13 | ->'''Consumption:''' 1. A disease that is supposed to affect operatic sopranos in the role of Mimi in Puccini's ''[[Theatre/LaBoheme La Bohème]]''. The audience is forced to accept that a 200-pound woman who sings for four hours is wasting away. |
| 14 | -->-- '''David W. Barber and Dave Donald, ''A Musician's Dictionary'' |
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