Upon a day Beauty and Ugliness met on the shore of a sea. And they said to one another, "Let us bathe in the sea."
Then they disrobed and swam in the waters. And after a while Ugliness came back to shore and garmented himself with the garments of Beauty and walked his way.
And Beauty too came out of the sea, and found not her rainment, and she was too shy to be naked, therefore she dressed herself with the rainment of Ugliness. And Beauty walked her way.
And to this very day men and women mistake the one for the other.
Yet some there are who have beheld the face of Beauty, and they know her notwithstanding her garments. And some there be who know the face of Ugliness, and the cloth conceals him not from their eyes. ~Garments, Khalil Gibran

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher

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