• Posters
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1. black
2. grey
3. blue
4. red
5. brown
6. white

Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.

Anatole France

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  Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.

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  The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

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  For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.

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  Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

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  But I deny that He created the world; at the most He organised but an inferior part of it, and all that He touched bears the mark of His rough and unforeseeing touch.

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  He would not stoop even to pick up the old manuscript I am going to seek with so much trouble and fatigue. And in truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.

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  Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.

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