"Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man."
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"If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all."
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"I'm actually a pretty decent human being, and when I'm home I'm straight as an arrow."
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"The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die."
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"Beautiful is greater than Good, for it includes the Good."
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"If they would, for Example, praise the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they describe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms, Ellipses, and other geometrical terms."
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"Those things of real worth in life are worth going to any length in love and respect to safeguard."
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"Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light."
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"Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall."
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"Too dear I prized a fair enchanting face: beauty unchaste is beauty in disgrace."
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"Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end."
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"At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman."
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"And still the mad magnificent herald Spring assembles beauty from forgetfulness with the wild trump of April:witchery of sound and odour drives the wingless thing man forth in the bright air."
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"Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna."
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"There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved by art."
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"Beauty is the greatest seducer of man."
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"Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret."
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"Beauty is the flower of virtue."
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"Beauty is a natural superiority."
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"It seems to me that whatever else is beautiful apart from asbsolute beauty is beautiful because it partakes of that absolute beauty, and for no other reason. Do you accept this kind of causality?"
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