There is no happiness like that of a young couple in a little house they have built themselves in a place of beauty and solitude.
—Annie Proulx, 2008
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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
—Yves Saint Laurent, 1978Communities do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1863Secrecy lies at the very core of power.
—Elias Canetti, 1960One’s body, hair, and skin are a gift from one’s parents—do not dare to allow them to be harmed.
—Classic of Filial Piety, c. 200 BCSuperstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
—Saint Augustine, c. 390Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
—Saint Augustine, c. 400Emigration is easy, but immigration is something else. To flee, yes; but to be accepted?
—Victoria Wolff, 1943Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today.
—Malcolm X, 1964Even members of the nobility, let alone persons of no consequence, would do well not to have children.
—Yoshida Kenko, c. 1330What is food to one is to others bitter poison.
—Lucretius, 50 BCIn meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1880