I get this strong urge to dance from within. Ayesha's second birthday

Shalu dances on Ayesha's second birthday

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A Rajasthani eunuch dance for Ayesha's birthday

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For Ayesha's third birthday, we hired a live band and dressed Ayesha like an English girl

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On his arrival each eunuch was greeted by me with a garland of jasmine flowers. Ayesha's first birthday

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I try so hard to please Ayesha, to make jokes. To win her back, I even bought a computer, but..

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83 Postcards sent to Kazuo Okazaki, from "I GOT UP" series (1968-1979)

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5 Telegrams sent to Yasuhiro Yurugi, from "I am still alive" series (1970-2000)

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TENANTS AND LANDLOADS 5: －Why, madam..., I am unwise enough to absent myself from my property for some months and this is the state in which I find you... I give you twenty four hours' notice to leave... I don't even know that I don't have the right to claim damages from your husband!..

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LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 84: RECEPTION OF A FREE-MASON: We know from a reliable source that you are here among us only to unveil our secrets to outsiders... your guilty schemes will be frustrated... I have just received order to plunge this dagger into your breast!..

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Walking along a road off the highway. According to estimates, more than 300,000 had died from starvation in Ethiopia by this time

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ROBERT MACAIRE. 2nd Series 12: What's the matter with you, Robert? you seem full of care. －Yes I'm vexed... Those devils of Shareholders have tormented me so much, tormented me so much that I gave them a dividend. －Deuce! a real dividend? －Yes, I gave it to them completely.. －What are you goin to do? －I'm going to try to get it back

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NEWS 110: －Great Prince Muley, son of Muley, do you deign to place yourself in the shade beneath this object... the Englishman who had the kindness to make over this object to me for a hundred gold pieces told me that it was of excellent use in all the storms of life... －Let me be... it's useless... the day when the French took away my parasol, I caught sunstroke from which I shall never recover!..

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ROBERT MACAIRE. 2nd Series 17: Man in naluratibus [sic]. Philosophy, my dear Bertrand, explains very well our two characters from our physiques... you are weakness, I am strength... to you is cunning, to me courage... you are the ivy and I the oak, without me the slightest breeze from the police will plunge you into a torrent of misfortune... do not leave me and inscribe upon your arms: I die or I cling

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TRIVIAL THINGS 8: －Don't talk to me about it, it's pitiful:there's a man who's spent his week's money on strong drink, you should look after such unfortunates... －Well at least, pick him up!... －Certainly not... he didn't get drunk at my place!

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Album des Charges du Jour: AT TANGIER －Sublime Majesty!... here come the Spaniards..., I think of anticipating your wishes, in order to inspire them with respect..., to unfurl your august parasol!... －Do not pester me, Belboul, about my parasol... at this very moment I would prefer to have a Bullet-shield!..

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(Left) The little village on the far mountainside was already out of sight, and spring was coming around again. The grape trees were like large ailing snakes creeping under the coping stones of the wall. A brown light moved about in the tepid air. The void created by the selfsame every day is likely to chop down even the young trees that were left behind. In this everyday life, a thicket of trees protrudes like a boulder. (Right) The village I lived in has never been thought of as so small. The sun showed itself. The tall poplar forest looks like a beach being blown about by the wind. I grow dizzy just watching that seamless succession. If I can manage to get drunk on this succession of unchanging days, I can also grow to feel like I have taken down an elephant or snake. He differentiated things in this way, like a fluttering butterfly

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Strangers in Paris 18: The hat that one brings back from Paris: You might well say that that hat will make a great impression in Landerneau!... eighty five francs! it's expensive, duckie... you give yourself marabout stork feathers, but it's I who get plucked!..

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NAUTICAL IMPRESSIONS. NAUTICAL THRILLS: Mr. PRUDHOMME. －What..., impudent waves!... do you indeed not know whom you are carrying at this moment, since you are so bold towards me?... understand that, like Xerxes, I am able to have you lashed!... Mrs. PRUDHOMME (Trembling all over) －Oh!... my dear... I beg you!... don't be impertinent to it, you'll put it in a rage and it's capable of swallowing us up!..

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BOHEMIANS OF PARIS 22: THE CLOTHES SELLER: “Closes to sell!... any hats, shoes, old clothes to sell!” This trade fourishes at carnival time in the vicinity of the schools of law and medicine: the student willingly sells his wardrobe to get himself a stevedore's costume, a wife, a small thimble-full of champagne and limitless tittle-tattle!

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SKETCHES OF AUTUMN by DAUMIER 5: －Look here the sparrow was perching in that tree, it's very easy to shoot. －Yes, but if I kill it, we'll no longer have the opportunity to hunt tomorrow... it's the last one in our garden

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MEMORIES OF THE PEACE CONGRESS [2]: SECOND MEETING: An American orator proves in an irrefutable manner that the only means of pacifying humankind is to force all men to wear, like him, a green hat, which they should never remove except in the evenings, when going to bed. No one even dared to contest this opinion

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THE ALARMISTS AND ALARMED. 6: －Sir, it's a three sou letter... －Is it the done thing to knock on the door for a three sou letter...I had a fright!... I thought they'd come to ask me for my weapons..

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THE ALARMISTS AND ALARMED. 6: －Sir, it's a three sou letter... －Is it the done thing to knock on the door for a three sou letter...I had a fright!... I thought they'd come to ask me for my weapons..

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TODAY'S PHILANTHROPISTS 15: －Come closer, friends, do not be ashamed... you see that it is only I myself!... you are five hundred... good... today I am going to distribute these twenty three bunches of faggots and this pot-full of broth, broth in which each week I pour the best part of my fortune!..

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Hoteru nimotsuwohakondekureruhito

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2-chome, Nagata-cho, Chiyoda-ku

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Shishigashira.ranmanochoukoku(inami)

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岩木山の八日トメ

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Yamagashioomiyadoorinite。machinihasuumeinoyamagatouroushigaite、natsunotourousainisonae、seisakuniisogashii。（35miri）

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Toutoutarari

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Oroku's room

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あばれ祭り

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Drinking, singing, loving Ikebukuro, undergorund of Meiji Street building

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In January 1970, Colonel Emeka Ojukwu, the leader of Biafra, went into exile,marking the collapse of Biafra and the end of the Nigerian civil war

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Yokinsuruoujinoshain

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「日本方言図鑑」掲載 00010-00062-0008

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城端曳山祭

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KyoubashisuijouseikatsushaginzaitchoumenokyoubashigawanihaisenriyounoiegaattashokugyouhahaihinatsukaigyoudenekomoinumoniwatorimokaiakarukuseikatsushiteitakyoubashimukounotatemonohakeisatsuPRsentāshouwa24nen

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Atobenoodorinenbutsu

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Presentation Ceremony of the Guardian of Water statue

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茨城県潮来市

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