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“Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.”
― Jane Austen

“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“En los ojos de la gente puede verse lo que verán, no lo que han visto.”
― Alessandro Baricco, Novecento. Un monologo

“The quality that we call beauty ... must always grow from the realities of life.”
― Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows