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"I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance."
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"She has enough black eyeliner on to outline a corpse, and her skin's so pale she looks like she's just broken dawn."
"Himself an ugly man, insignificantof appearance, he prized very highly comeliness in others."
"Her face is silting up, like a pond; layers are accumulating. Every once in a while, when she can afford the time, she spends a few days at a spa north of the city, drinking vegetable juice and having ultrasound treatments, in search of her original face, the one she knows is under there somewhere; she comes back feeling toned up and virtuous, and hungry."
"Though Queen Victoria in England had suggested that makeup was impolite, even vanity, Gideon saw it as yet another weapon. It was not so different from magic."
"There was a photograph of Trout. He was an old man with a full black beard. He looked like a frightened, aging Jesus, whose sentence to crucifixion had been commuted to imprisonment for life."
"For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason."
"The curve of my waist in a tight fitting summer dress can really make me new friends."
"Most of us don't notice how great we look until years, even decades later. Not long ago, I was looking at photos of myself at various ages and weights-way before the neckular deterioration began, way before the fanny pack of menopause-and I could see how gorgeous I must have looked to everyone else."
"All the men's clothes she wore just called attention to how much of a girl she was."
"For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures, upper arms."
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"Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth."
"One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god."
"I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell."
"Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you."
"A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it."
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