"Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man."
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"Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror."
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"If we look at the world with a love of life, the world will reveal its beauty to us."
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"You're only human. You live once and life is wonderful, so eat the damned red velvet cupcake."
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"No radiant pearl which crested Fortune wears, No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's ears, Not the bright stars which Night's blue arch adorn, Nor rising suns that gild the vernal morn, Shine with such lustre as the tear that flows Down Virtue's manly cheek for others' woes."
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"Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty."
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"Beauty is a short-lived tyranny."
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"How full of the creative genius is the air in which these [snowflakes] are generated! I should hardly admire them more if real stars fell and lodged on my coat. Nature is full of genius. Full of the divinity. So that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand."
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"When you look closely people are so strange & so complicated that they're actually beautiful."
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"Life is beauty, admire it."
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"I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused."
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"Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art."
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"Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is."
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"We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry."
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"He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise."
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"For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don't."
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"With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration."
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"Love is a great beautifier."
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"Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams."
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"Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror."
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