Monday, October 27, 2008

quasimodo

do not look at the face,
young girl, look at the heart.
the heart of a handsome man is often deformed.
there are hearts where love does not last.
young girl, the fir is not beautiful.
it is not beautiful like the poplar,
but it keeps its foliage in winter.
alas! what good is it to say this?
that which is not beautiful is wrong to be at all.
beauty loves only beauty,
april turns its back on january.
beauty is perfect,
beauty is capable of anything.
beauty is the only thing that does not exist in half measures.
the crow flies only in the day.
the owl flies only at night.
the swan flies day and night.

-victor hugo the hunchback of notre-dame

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