Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain.

—Matthew Arnold, “Dover Beach” (1867)

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"Eleganz ist, wenn das Innere so schön ist wie das Äußere."
— Coco Chanel

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"Eine starke Frau sieht einer Herausforderung fest in die Augen und zwinkert ihr zu."
— Gina Carey

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IT IS A terrible thing to be happy! How we content ourselves with it! How easily we find it to be the be-all and end-all! How easily, having attained that false aim of life, happiness, we forget the real aim, duty!

~ Victor Hugo - Les Miserables
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The devil, who is cunning, took to hating man; man, who is even more cunning, took to loving woman. In this way, he did himself more good than the devil did him harm.

~ Les Miserables,
Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
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We who believe, what do we have to fear? Ideas can’t flow backward any more than rivers can.

But let those who don’t want anything to do with the future think carefully.

By saying no to progress, it is not the future they condemn, it is themselves.

They give themselves a fatal disease when they inoculate themselves with the past. There is only one way to reject Tomorrow and that is to die.

©Victor Hugo. ~ Les Miserables

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