"I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in and know every man had turned his head. It kept me in form."
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"A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful."
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"What is beautiful is a joy for all seasons."
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"Our life is a manifestation, and we can very well make that manifestation beautiful and meaningful and have a good influence."
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"Architecture is the frame of human existence. We must dedicate this existence more to beauty. For if poetic principle has deserted us, how long are we going to last?"
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"The Besicovitch style is architectural. He builds out of simply elements a delicate and complicated architectural structure, usually with a hierarchical plan, and then, when the building is finished, the completed structure leads by simple arguments to an unexpected conclusion. Every Besicovitch proof is a work of art, as carefully constructed as a Bach fugue."
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"Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty."
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"Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing we see today, made by past generations, was, before its appearance, a thought in the mind of a man or an impulse in the heart of a woman."
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"Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art."
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"Beautiful works do not intoxicate, but they enchant."
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"The noble grotesque involves the true appreciation of beauty."
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"Grace pours all beauty into the soul ... The soul means the world."
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"No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly."
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"Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life."
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"I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!"
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"Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?"
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"Beauty and folly are generally companions."
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"A beautiful woman should break her mirror early."
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"The old dead trees are the most fascinating - the countless trees lying in the gullies and up the hills that fell perhaps a century ago, pulling up their roots from the earth as they toppled. The great upheavals left rocks in their huge tentacles and, as they slowly rot, the trunks are home to populations of creatures, from goannas to wild pigs. As grey as tombstones in a cemetery they lie there, having outlasted generations of farmers, as they'll outlast me. In their own way they are as beautiful, more beautiful, than living trees."
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"Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may."
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