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posted by Staff, on 13 may 2026 12.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wealth and poverty)

He is now fast rising from affluence to poverty.

posted by Staff, on 13 may 2026 0.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Clothes)

Sabina's initial inner revolt against Communism was aesthetic rather than ethical in character. What repelled her was not nearly so much the ugliness of the Communist world (ruined castles transformed into cow sheds) as the mask of beauty it tried to wear, in other words, Communist kitsch.

Milan Kundera

posted by Staff, on 12 may 2026 12.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Love)

Letters (of love). Write them. Otherwise no one will know what wonderful feelings fill you. Even if the king or queen of your heart is unworthy (as you might have been told), write them-it will do you good. Keep copies.

Marlene Dietrich

posted by Staff, on 12 may 2026 0.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Behavior)

I have told you that: we know nothing save what we have first, in one way or another, desired; and it may even be added that we can know nothing well save what we love, save what we pity.

Miguel De Unamuno

posted by Staff, on 11 may 2026 12.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Music)

A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.

Billie Joe Armstrong

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