And over the village slipped the days, passing into the nights; the weeks flowed by, the months crept on, the wind howled, and glassified with an autumnal, translucent, greenish-azure, The Don flowed tranquility down to the sea.

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Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin. That or a kick-ass red lipstick. — Gwyneth Paltrow

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If it could only be like this always–always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe. – Evelyn Waugh

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September was a thirty-days long goodbye to summer, to the season that left everybody both happy and weary of the warm, humid weather and the exhausting but thrilling adventures. – Lea Malot

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Happy girls are the prettiest. — Audrey Hepburn

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Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.- Henry David Thoreau

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Summer has always been good to me, even the bittersweet end, with the slanted yellow light. – Paul Monette

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How you look and how you feel: they’re the same. — Bobbi Brown

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The way you spend Christmas is far more important than how much. – Henry David Thoreau

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That’s one of the things I love about makeup. You can change your whole attitude by just doing your eyeliner or lipstick differently. — Beyoncé

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