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"What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects."
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"Stars earn their brightest colors in the dark."
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"Each moment has an unrealized dimension of beauty that only your perspective can liberate."
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"Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait."
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"True fashion should reflect deeper feelings of inner passion for life."
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"If the path is beautiful, all you have to do when walking in that path is to be beautiful so as to not ruin the beauty of the path!"
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"Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste."
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"The beauty of a woman is not in her facial makeup but in the kindness of her soul."
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"You always were beautiful, and you always will be beautiful."
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"Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused."
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"Do what is beautiful to make yourself beautiful."
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"Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it."
Art
"The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation."
Life
"Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without."
Experience
"A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry."
Poetry
"Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass."
Art
"To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought."
Thought
"Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us."
Life
"One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most."
Wisdom
"That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact."
Life
"Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening."
Attitude
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