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A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
– John Keats
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Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
– John Keats
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Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.
– Florence King
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Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.
– Paul Klee
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How goodness heightens beauty!
– Milan Kundera
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Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.
– Milan Kundera
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The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography.
– Alberto Korda
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I feel by posing for Playboy I've discovered my own sexuality and beauty, and I feel more confident than ever.
– Heather Kozar
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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.
– Charles Lamb
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The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.
– Charles Lamb
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Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?
– Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
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The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
– David Herbert Lawrence
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Integrity reveals beauty.
– Thomas Leonard
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I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light.
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
– Sophia Loren
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When the soul looks out of its body, it should see only beauty in its path. These are the sights we must hold in mind, in order to move to a higher place.
– Yusef Lateef
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I shall give you hunger, and pain, and sleepless nights. Also beauty, and satisfactions known to few, and glimpses of the heavenly life. None of these you shall have continually, and of their coming and going you shall not be foretold.
– Howard Lindsay
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I don't need plastic in my body to validate me as a woman.
– Courtney Love
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The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.
– Thomas Babington Macaulay
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People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
– Imelda Marcos
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Goodness is beauty in the best estate.
– Christopher Marlowe
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
– W. Somerset Maugham
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, get it out with Optrex.
– Spike Milligan
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Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.
– Christopher Morley
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In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
– Christopher Morley
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I always say beauty is only sin deep.
– Hector Hugh Munro
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The English Bible, a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.
– Lord Macaulay
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I'm still figuring out why people would want to look at me. Maybe it's generic beauty, but it's weird to be valued for something I was born with.
– Josie Maran
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When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
– Agnes Martin
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I have several computer companies. One of them I have a program for wide-format printing. I have a beauty program. So I have several different programs that I own for printing.
– Jerry Mathers
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Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.
– Robert Motherwell
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We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
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Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability - they should go hand in hand.
– Donald A. Norman
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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.
– Frank Norris
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I had a lot of resentment for a while toward Kim Novak. But I don't mind her anymore. She's okay. We've become friends. I even asked her before this trip for some beauty tips.
– Kim Novak
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Beauty is but a flower which wrinkles will devour; Brightness falls from the air.
– Thomas Nashe
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If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe.
– Conor Oberst
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Suddenly life has new meaning to me,There's beauty up above and things we never take notice of, You wake up suddenly you're in love.
– Billy Ocean
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The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.
– Camille Paglia
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I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.
– Boris Pasternak
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You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life sickens more than disease. And boldness is the root of beauty. Which draws us together.
– Boris Pasternak
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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.
– Titus Maccius Plautus
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
– Edgar Allan Poe
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For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.
– Matthew Prior
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Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin. That, or a kick-ass red lipstick.
– Gwyneth Paltrow
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The flowers anew, returning seasons bring; but beauty faded has no second spring.
– Ambrose Philips
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The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own -even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.
– Pliny
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Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.
– Munshi Premchand
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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.
– Jean Paul Richter
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Through my optimism I naturally prefer and capture the beauty in life.
– Leni Riefenstahl
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The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.
– Joan Rivers
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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
– Jean Rostand
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Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
– Helen Rowland
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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.
– John Ruskin
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Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.
– Rosalind Russell
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Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
– Marie Louise De La Ramee
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The pain passes, but the beauty remains.
– Pierre Auguste Renoir
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Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?
– Sara Teasdale
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I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?
– James Thomson
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The perception of beauty is a moral test.
– Henry David Thoreau
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
– Leo Tolstoy
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For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.
– Edwin Way Teale
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The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.
– Edwin Way Teale
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All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.
– Evelyn Underhill
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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
– Gabrielle Union
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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
– Carl Van Vechten
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All the beauty of the world, 'tis but skin deep.
– Ralph Venning
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Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.
– Lew Wallace
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Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
– Simone Weil
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
– H. G. Wells
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Exuberance is beauty.
– H. G. Wells
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The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.
– Walt Whitman
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It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.
– Thornton Wilder
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'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.
– Naomi Wolf
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Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our beauty so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.
– Naomi Wolf
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This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.
– Thomas Wolfe
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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
– Virginia Woolf
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The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
– Virginia Woolf
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Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.
– Virginia Woolf
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The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.
– William Wordsworth
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The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.
– Frank Lloyd Wright
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We need a balanced, long term energy policy to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and preserve the beauty of the land we love.
– Heather Wilson
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Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.
– Joanne Woodward
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A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.
– Xenophon
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For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.
– Xenophon
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If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.
– Peter York
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There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.
– Loretta Young
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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.
– Marguerite Young
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Beauty is often worse than wine; intoxicating both the holder and beholder.
– John Zimmerman
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You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
– Anouk Aimee
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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
– Sir Francis Bacon
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Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
– Pearl S. Buck
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The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
– Havelock Ellis
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
– Francesco Petrarch
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.
– Miss Piggy
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Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.
– Camille Paglia
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You, too, women, cast away all the cowards from your embraces they will give you only cowards for children, and you who are the daughters of the land of beauty must bear children who are noble and brave.
– Giuseppe Garibaldi
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You will also allow me to thank the Academy for inviting me to lecture in Stockholm, for its hospitality, and for the opportunity afforded me for admiring the charm of your people and the beauty of your country.
– Guglielmo Marconi
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You get more churches burned down in the United States in the last two years than in the last hundred, because of the lack of understanding of culture and diversity and the beauty of it.
– Edward James Olmos
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You don't know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a room filled with 50 people and they don't talk to you. There's very little interaction.
– Helmut Jahn
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