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Simone Weil Philosopher, Activist
Beauty

"There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction."

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Alan Cohen Author
Beauty

"Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused."

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Alice Walker Novelist, Poet
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"In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful."

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Khalil Gibran Poet, Writer
Beauty

"Said one oyster to a neighboring oyster, "I have a very great pain within me. It is heavy and round and I am in distress." And the other oyster replied with haughty complacence, "Praise be to the heavens and to the sea, I have no pain within me. I am well and whole both within and without." At that moment a crab was passing by and heard the two oysters, and he said to the one who was well and whole both within and without, "Yes, you are well and whole; but the pain that your neighbor bears is a pearl of exceeding beauty.""

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Plotinus Philosopher
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"Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself."

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Edgar Allan Poe Poet, Writer
Beauty

"That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful."

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