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Cleopatra
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History is a disease. It masquerades as truth, but no one can replicate a moment in words alone. In Egypt we didn’t try. History and stories were synonymous—like our art, they were reflections of sentiment rather than lauded as fact.
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
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“I think aging is hard for everyone.” Amara swiped a red bliss potato with crème fraîche and caviar off a passing tray. “But it’s definitely harder for women. And I think even more so for beautiful women. Because if so much of your identity and your value is tied up in your looks and how the world responds to your physical appearance, what do you do when that changes? How do you see yourself then? Who do you become?”
― The Idea of You
― The Idea of You
“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
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