"I have desired, like every artist, to create a little world out of the beautiful, pleasant, and significant things of this marred and clumsy world, and to show in a vision something of the face of Ireland to any of my own people who would look where I bid them. I have therefore written down accurately and candidly much that I have heard and seen, and, except by way of commentary, nothing that I have merely imagined."
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"When I left you, you were already more beautiful than anything I dared to dream. In our years apart, my imaginings did their best to improve on your perfection. At night, your face was forever behind my eyes. And now I see that that vision who kept me company in my loneliness was a hag compared to the beauty now before me."
"For you see each day I love you more today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow. Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited."
"The beautiful disease and The government falls along the weed rooms flesh along the weed government."
"'By heaven, that thou art fair, is most infallible true, that thou art beauteous truth itself, that thou art lovely. More fairer than fair, beautiful than beauteous, truer than truth itself, have commiseration on thy heroical vassal."
"A blind man can't forget the eyesight he lost, show me any beautiful girl. How can her beauty not remind me of the one whose beauty surpasses hers?"
"Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful"
"I have lov'd her ever since I saw her; and still I see her beautiful"
"A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free."
"If thou art beautiful, and youth and thought endue thee with all truth-be strong;--be worthy of the grace of God."
"While there are so many beautiful Baroque churches and it's a beautiful artistic tradition, it almost gets hideous and grotesque if you push it further. You can take something beautiful and overdo it."
"It is hard, if not impossible, to snub a beautiful woman - they remain beautiful and the snub recoils."
"Fancy living in one of these streets, never seeing anything beautiful, never eating anything savoury, never saying anything clever!"
"I feel that humor, just like Fred Astaire dance numbers or these lightweight musicals, gives you a little oasis. You are in this horrible world and for an hour and a half you duck into a dark room and it's air-conditioned and the sun is not blinding you and you leave the terror of the universe behind and you are completely transported into an escapist situation. The women are beautiful, the men are witty and heroic, nobody has terrible problems and this is a delightful escapist thing, and you leave the theater refreshed."
"Paris is particularly beautiful in the rain. It was just a nice experience for me, a pleasant experience, and I was able to present it to the world through my eyes, very subjectively - not realistically, but subjectively."
"Why did God make woman so beautiful and man with such a loving heart?"
"I think simplicity's beautiful when you do it in the right way."
"How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched by the often perverse wisdom of man!"
"The truth is a young maiden as modest as she is beautiful, and therefore she is always seen cloaked."
"Writers have to get used to launching something beautiful and watching it crash and burn. They also have to learn when to let go control, when the work takes off on its own and flies, farther than they ever planned or imagined, to places they didn't know they knew."