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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle...

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BeautyIs the fume-track of necessity. This thought Is therapeutic.If, after severalApplications, you...

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Robert Penn WarrenThe Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren

Just about all men need a woman in one way or another, unless they’re very strange indeed. Tormentin...

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The little boy nodded at the peony and the peony seemed to nod back. The little boy was neat, clean ...

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The greatest beauty is organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the...

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The heads of strong old age are beautiful / Beyond all grace of youth

Gene [Siskel] often mentioned something François Truffaut once told him: the most beautiful sight in...

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No doubt there are some who, when confronted with a line of mathematical symbols, however simply pre...

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Roger PenroseThe Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe

Then there are the fully intentional pleasures, which, although in some way tied up with sensory or ...

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Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so ti...

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Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.

Ultima came to stay with us the summer I was almost seven. When she came the beauty of the llano unf...

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The orange of the golden carp appeared at the edge of the pond. . . . We watched in silence at the b...

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I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better ...

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Let the beauty you love be what you do. There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the earth.

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.

I want to change the world, and do something valuable and beautiful. I want people to remember me be...

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A personality for the incredibly beautiful can be a pointless cargo...

I have a pretty good memory, but memories are time beings, too, like cherry blossoms or ginkgo leave...

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We place such crazy importance on physical appearance in our image-obsessed culture, on youth and be...

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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

Beauty should be edible, or not at all.

IIA grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear,      A stifled, drowsy, unimpassioned grief,      W...

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]sing to usthe one with violets in her lap]mostly]goes astray

...gracious your form and your eyes as honey : desire is poured upon your lovely face Aphrodite has ...

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]Sardisoften turning her thoughts here]you like a goddessand in your song most of all she rejoiced.B...

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their heart grew coldthey let their wings down

It's not that I believe everything happens for a reason, it's just that...I just think that some thi...

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I'm not into appearances. I like flaws, I think they make things interesting.

There's beauty everywhere. There are amazing things happening everywhere, you just have to be able t...

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The bright flower was like a face. Somehow, the beauty and life of it were surprising in the plain r...

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Her eyes [were] like the sudden plunge to blue depths beyond a continental shelf.

I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 2...

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The beauty of age is we grow, we learn. We have more wisdom. And as much as the youth-glorifying Hol...

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He looked into the crowd for approval, saw his mother and father. He waved and they waved back. Smil...

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Sherman AlexieThe Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, ...

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Herein is a capital truth. It is not the natural capacity, the congenital gift, nor is it the effort...

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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.

The younger and healthier a woman is and the more her new and glossy body seems destined for eternal...

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There is one way, then, in which a man can be free from all anxiety about the fate of his soul - if ...

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It seems to me that whatever else is beautiful apart from absolute Beauty is beautiful because it pa...

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A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view...

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Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.

At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, "comple...

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All the beautiful waitresses existed like eternal responsibilities.

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Spalding GrayThe Journals of Spalding Gray

The experience of being in the Army changed my whole life; I never believed that an organization suc...

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When I had the dividing reason, I shrank from many things; after I had lost it in sight, I hunted th...

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Just one smileImmensely increases the beauty Of the universe.

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Sri ChinmoySri Chinmoy's Heart Garden: A Book of Aphorisms for Joy and Inspiration

There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.

she might have been pretty when she started out, but the world had moved on since then.

Your hair is winter fire,January embers.My heart burns there, too.-Stephen King, IT

the late afternoon sunlight, warm as oil, sweet as childhood ...

Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too swe...

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Stephen KingRita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons

Apart from pleasure, beauty also kindles imagination, hope and encouragement. If beauty ceased to ex...

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both you and paintings are layered… first, ephemera and notations on the back of the canvas. Labels ...

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she is nearing forty and not so easily forgiven as when her skin bloomed like roses.

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Steve MartinAn Object of Beauty

I didn't know what to think, but what I felt was magnetic and so big it ached like the moon had ente...

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Sue Monk KiddThe Secret Life of Bees

In the most general terms, the Enlightenment goes back to Plato's belief that truth and beauty and g...

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Susan NeimanMoral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists

One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.

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Susan NeimanMoral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists

How you spend your energy is ultimately what creates who you

Ladies, stress shows on your face. Happiness is the true beauty we

Ladies, stress shows on your face. Happiness is the true beauty weapon." ( Kym Douglas / Cindy Pearl...

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Having an eye for beauty isn't the same thing as a weakness...except possibly when it comes to you.

With genius, as with beauty -- all, well almost all, is forgiven.

As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain.

Having an eye for beauty isn't the same thing as a weakness.

Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the co...

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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