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In the Sixties, fashion was about liberation. It was about setting women free; it wasn't about being unable to walk.


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JOHANN VON GOETHE The unnatural, that too is natural.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always righ...
JOHANN VON GOETHE In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is ...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.
JOHANN VON GOETHE The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized worl...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable...the art of the next best.
OTTO VON BISMARCK Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
JOHANN VON GOETHE The philosopher must station themselves in the middle.
JOHANN VON GOETHE He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the w...
JOHANN VON GOETHE To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they of...
JOHANN VON GOETHE We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirk...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to d...
JOHANN VON GOETHE There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternally new now that b...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.
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