"All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch."
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"There is an ugly side to Donald Trump that we all have to stop and think about what's going on here."
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"If a white cloth is stained even with a small spot, the stain appears very ugly indeed. So the smallest fault of a holy man becomes painfully prominent."
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"The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth."
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"I have no religion,’ says Borneau, ‘but I respect the religion of others. Religion is sacred.’ Why this privilege, this immunity?... A believer creates God in his own image; if he is ugly, his God will be morally ugly. Why should moral ugliness be respectable?"
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"if we focus on what's ugly, we attract more ugliness into our thoughts, and then into our emotions, and ultimately into our lives"
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"We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly."
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"I had imagined a kind, ugly, intuitive man looking up and say, 'Ah!' in an encouraging way, as if he could see something I couldn't, and then I would find words to tell him how I was so scared, as if I were being stuffed farther and farther into a black, airless sack with no way out."
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"Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly."
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"All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly."
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"When reality looks too ugly, fantasize."
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"I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly."
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"Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly."
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"Vice knows she is ugly, so puts on her mask."
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"Jealousy has always been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the Bad Seed."
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"For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended."
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"We are ugly but we have the music."
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"Ye are ugly? Well then, my brethren, take the sublime about you, the mantle of the ugly!"
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"When we see life, we call it beautiful. When we see death, we call it ugly. But it is more beautiful still to see oneself living at great speed, right up to the moment of death."
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"No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body."
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