“Pearls mean tears.”

—  Doris Lessing

Perlen bedeuten Tränen.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Emilia Galotti (1772), Act II, scene VIII
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British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer … 1919–2013

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