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"The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness."
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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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"The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly."
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"Do what is beautiful to make yourself beautiful."
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"A living poem" had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others."
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"Moon is the light from a lantern in heaven."
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"Beauty runs skin deep not on superficial assumptions or criticisms of many people. Live with a beautiful mind and heart. Live with a beautiful soul."
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"She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes, eyes that were very pretty and very good."
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"He really was beautiful. I know boys aren't supposed to be, but he was."
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"Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."
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"I suppose that there's a caddish streak in every man that runs crosswise across his character and disposition and general outlook."
Personality
"The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter."
Opinion
"For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming."
Poetry
"An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards."
Relationship
"Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again."
Politics
"No decent career was ever founded on a public."
Career
"It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before."
People
"Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction."
Money
"Most of the big shore places were closed now. And there were hardly any lights except the shadowy, moving glow of the ferryboat across the sound. And as the moon rose higher, the inessential houses began to melt away till gradually I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors' eyes, A fresh green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams. For a transitory, enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent. Face to face, for the last time in history, with something commensurate to its capacity for wonder."
Reflection
"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up."
People
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