"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"
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"The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair."
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"By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower."
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"Beauty is the pilot of the young soul."
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"Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers."
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"For nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress."
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"The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth."
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"The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture."
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"We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order."
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"To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I ey'd, Such seems your beauty still."
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"I keep telling myself that I'm a human being, an imperfect human being who's not made to look like a doll, and that who I am as a person is more important than whether at that moment I have a nice figure."
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"I do not know which to prefer - The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after."
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"Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful."
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"A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life."
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"The mirror to the beautiful is beautiful."
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"Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine."
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"When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty."
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"Exuberance is beauty."
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"I am of opinion that there is nothing so beautiful but that there is something still more beautiful, of which this is the mere image and expression,--a something which can neither be perceived by the eyes, the ears, nor any of the senses; we comprehend it merely in the imagination."
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"There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect."
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