"Let witchcraft join with beauty, lust with both!"
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"Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked."
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"Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future."
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"Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good."
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"A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing."
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"This means that we have barely disembarked into life, that we've only just now been born, let's not fill our mouths with so many uncertain names, with so many sad labels, with so many pompous letters, with so much yours and mine, with so much signing of papers. I intend to confuse things, to unite them, make them new-born intermingle them, undress them, until the light of the world has the unity of the ocean, a generous wholeness, a fragrance alive and crackling."
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"All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind."
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"It does not hurt weak eyes to look into beautiful eyes never so long."
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"Accuracy is essential to beauty."
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"It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness."
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"Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace."
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"Beauty always promises, but never gives anything."
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"Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on."
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"Beauty only happens once."
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"Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom."
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"One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare"
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"It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before."
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"Even the handsomest men do not have the same momentary effect on the world as a truly beautiful woman does."
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"The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things."
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"I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity."
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