"Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty."
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"I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be."
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"The opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty."
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"Also, that which is desirable in itself is more desirable than what is desirable per accidens."
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"Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly."
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"Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul"
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"Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual beauty. Moral beauty has a tendency to decay very rapidly into sententiousness or untimeliness."
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"Brother, stand the pain. Escape the poison of your impulses. The sky will bow to your beauty, if you do. Learn to light the candle. Rise with the sun. Turn away from the cave of your sleeping. That way a thorn expands to a rose."
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"All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten. The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten."
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"The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise."
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"Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face."
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"Where does beauty begin? Where does it end? Where it ends is where the artist begins."
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"And who is so barbarous as not to understand that the foot of a man is nobler than his shoe, and his skin nobler than that of the sheep with which he is clothed."
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"Beauty? To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to."
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"The human soul needs actual beauty even more than bread."
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"A woman is most beautiful when she smiles. Other than that, the most valuable tip I've learned is always use a skin moisturiser!"
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"Joy is the best makeup."
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"Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on."
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"This City now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air."
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"Umlaut snaps around and we cut to a blond apparition in her early twenties, clearly descended from Olympus by way of Hugh Hefner's mansion."
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