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You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.

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I have no nostalgia for the patriarchy, please believe me. But what I have come to realize is that, when that patriarchic system was (rightfully) dism...more

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But what if, either by choice or by reluctant necessity, you end up not participating in this comforting cycle of family and continuity? What if you s...more

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Italian men are beautiful in the same way as French women, which is to say - no detail spared in the quest for perfection.

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London? Paris? Berlin? Zurich? Maybe Brussels, center of the young union? They all strive to outdo one another culturally, architecturally, politicall...more

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In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot be bar...more

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To devote yourself to the creation and enjoyment of beauty, then, can be a serious business—not always necessarily a means of escaping reality, but so...more