"The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.“

-E. M. Forster

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"Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna."

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