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Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserab...

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To do the useful thing to say the courageous thing to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is eno...

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Was Briony the only person who could hear the venom dripping from the woman’s tongue? What good was ...

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It's lovely. I hate it.

I think for me, beauty is sincerity. I think that there are so many different ways that someone can ...

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Nanny Ogg was an attractive lady, which is not the same as being beautiful. She fascinated Casanunda...

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That's old Twoflower, Rincewind thought. It’s not that he doesn’t appreciate beauty, he just appreci...

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...the beautiful in nature is like a spark flashing momentarily and disappearing as soon as one trie...

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Generally the thunder-storms came in the afternoon, but once I saw one at sunrise, driving down the ...

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What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winge...

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Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

But you are too lovely even to care to be kind as others are.

She had not heard him enter, and hardly realized his presence there. She was yawning, and he saw the...

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Thomas HardyTess of the D'Urbervilles

How very lovable her face was to him. Yet there was nothing ethereal about it; all was real vitality...

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BEL-IMPERIA: Oh let me go; for in my troubled eyesNow may'st thou read that life in passion dies.HOR...

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Thomas KydThe Spanish Tragedy

Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice whe...

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Thomas MannDeath in Venice and Other Tales

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also,...

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Thomas MannDeath in Venice and Other Tales

Kindly permit me to tell you, sir, that I hate you. I hate you and your child, as I hate the life of...

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For as love is oftentimes won with beauty, so it is not kept, preserved, and continued, but by virtu...

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A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.

Some men may be snared by beauty alone, but none can be held except by virtue and compliance.

Throughout the hours of the night, though there had been few to hear it, the whole sky had been loud...

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Nothing is really beautiful unless it is useless; everything useful is ugly, for it expresses a need...

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What is the use of beauty in woman? Provided a woman is physically well made and capable of bearing ...

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Théophile GautierMademoiselle de Maupin

To be beautiful, handsome, means that you possess a power which makes all smile upon and welcome you...

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Théophile GautierMademoiselle de Maupin

The Brazilian poet Vinicius de Moraes wrote that beauty is fundamental. Well, with the poet's permis...

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I find, the fancier the fashion magazine is, the worse the Photoshop. It’s as if they are already so...

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My greatest beauty secret is being happy with myself. I don't use special creams or treatments - I'l...

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The desert, when the sun comes up...I couldn't tell where heaven stopped and the Earth began.

Nobody loves the head of a dandelion. Maybe because they are so many, strong, and soon.

Love is an optical illusion that makes you believe the object of your affection is the most beautifu...

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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

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Tom RobbinsEven Cowgirls Get the Blues

Beauty! Wasn't that what mattered? Beauty was hardly a popular ideal at that jumpy moment in history...

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It is still beautiful to hear the heart beatbut often the shadow seems more real than the body.

I've traveled. All over. I've never seen anything like you. How could anything be put together like ...

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At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even...

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Here was an ugly little girl asking for beauty....A little black girl who wanted to rise up out of t...

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Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature's laws wrong, it ...

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Tupac ShakurThe Rose That Grew from Concrete

Global warming will threaten our crops, so natural food will be scarce. Hourglass, curvy bodies will...

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Love me or hate me I promise that it will never make or break me...<3

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Tyra BanksTyra's Beauty Inside Out

the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most ...

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The beauty of the universe consists not only of unity in variety, but also of variety in unity.

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Umberto EcoThe Name of the Rose

After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the tr...

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The Tao Te Ching is partly in prose, partly in verse; but as we define poetry now, not by rhyme and ...

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Ursula K. Le GuinLao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way

Stealthily the stars slid forward into nothingness.

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

Without seeking to comprehend the incomprehensible, he gazed upon it. He did not study God; he was d...

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The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment’s silence, "Perhaps more so.

Style is the shape the ideal takes, rhythm, its movement.

Cosette, by learning that she was beautiful, lost the grace of not knowing it; an exquisite grace, f...

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The women laughed and wept; the crowd stamped their feet enthusiastically, for at that moment Quasim...

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Victor HugoThe Hunchback Of Notre Dame

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It exp...

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No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and...

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For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty.

The beauty of the world...has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtl...

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Virginia WoolfThe Letters of Virginia Woolf: Volume Six

It seems comfortable to sink down on a sofa in a corner, to look, to listen. Then it happens that tw...

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The moral sense in mortals is the dutyWe have to pay on mortal sense of beauty.

I see again my schoolroom in Vyra, the blue roses of the wallpaper, the open window.… Everything is ...

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Everything in the world is beautiful, but Man only recognizes beauty if he sees it either seldom or ...

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Vladimir NabokovThe Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

Ask a toad what is beauty? ... a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head a l...

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I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls, the right to brea...

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My second thoughts condemnAnd wonder how I dareTo look you in the eye.What right have I to swearEven...

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I walked with my eyes on the path, but out of the corners of them I saw a man hiding behind an olive...

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But there are people who take salt with their coffee. They say it gives a tang, a savour, which is p...

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Himself an ugly man, insignificantof appearance, he prized very highly comeliness in others.

Beauty is an ecstacy it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it.

Something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the tormen...

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The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.

I do not like these painted faces that look all alike; and I think women are foolish to dull their e...

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W. Somerset MaughamCollected Short Stories: Volume 1

I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without d...

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But Philip was impatient with himself; he called to mind his idea of the pattern of life: the unhapp...

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Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in ...

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W. Somerset MaughamThe Moon and Sixpence

The forces of blind life that work across this hilltop are as irresistible as she said they were, th...

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Isn’t it complicated to be human, though?” she said. “Animals seem to give up their lives so natural...

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Wallace StegnerAll the Little Live Things

Marian’s eyes absolutely blaze. To meet them is to have a shock of contact as if they were electrica...

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Wallace StegnerAll the Little Live Things

I have always said that the way to deal with the pain of other’s is by sympathy, which is suffering ...

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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our d...

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Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by ...

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The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.All seems beautiful to me...

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Have you reckon'd a thousand acres much? have you reckon'd the earth much? Have you practis'd so lon...

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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

It is with this movement, with the passage and dissolution of impressions, images, sensations, that ...

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Walter PaterThe Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry

It was this mystery, bereft now of all fear, and this beauty together that made life the endless, ch...

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