« If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places — and there are so many — where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. »

― Howard Zinn

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Ready for the fancy dress ball (1879) by Alfred Stevens (Belgian artist, lived 1823–1906).

The artist was at the peak of his career and highly successful. As can be guessed by the magnificence of this "Chinese Boudoir" room in his fabulous home on the Rue des Martyrs, Paris.

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A quotation from Bengis, Ingrid:

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There are plenty of alcoholics who can be magnificent when drunk: it does not make them any less alcoholic.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/bengis-ingrid/61121/

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