"Beauty itself doth of itself persuade the eyes of men without an orator."
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"Woman, nude, is the blue sky. Clouds and garments are an obstacle to contemplation. Beauty and infinity would be gazed upon unveiled."
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"Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art."
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"We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes."
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"The beautiful is never plentiful."
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"Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused."
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"Characteristics which define beauty are wholeness, harmony and radiance."
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"One of the most important-and most neglected-elements in the beginning of the interior life is the ability to respond to reality, to see the value and the beauty in ordinary things, to come alive to the splendour that is all around us."
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"By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity."
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"So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order."
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"By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself."
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"Because I could take this as an opportunity to create something that I pretty much guarantee nobody else was going to create in film."
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"You are horror and beauty in rare combination."
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"If you allow yourself to breathe into the depth, wonder, beauty, craziness, and strife everything that represents the fullness of your life you can live fearlessly. Because you come to realize that if you just keep breathing, you cannot be conquered"
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"Truth is the foundation and the reason of the perfection of beauty, for of whatever stature a thing may be, it cannot be beautiful-and perfect, unless it be truly what it should be, and possess truly all that it should have."
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"All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side."
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"Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness."
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"The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth."
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"Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!"
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"In art economy is always beauty."
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