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"I do not see any beauty in self-restraint."
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"The smile is the most beautiful ornament that you can wear."
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"The freshness of a smile and the fragrance of a perfume often define the personality of a woman."
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"To manifest the beauty of life, think beauty, dream beauty, and see the beauty in the simple things all around you."
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"The sweetest song is the beautiful smile of a loving woman."
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"What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth."
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"People are prettiest when they smile with joy."
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"Not the eyes, but the heart sees the beauty."
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"We do not want merely to see beauty, though, God knows, even that is bounty enough. We want something else which can hardly be put into words - to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it."
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"Be kind like a flower and know that life is beautiful like springtime."
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"True beauty does not shine, it attracts."
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"I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. She lived in Kalamazoo, for one thing, and then she read the book."
Reading
"Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all."
Truth
"Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest."
Criticism
"There is really no right and wrong. I recognize no right and wrong."
Risk
"It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls."
Education
"I love devils."
Love
"I do not see any beauty in self-restraint."
Beauty
"I have never read a line of Walt Whitman."
Reading
"The only joy I had was writing what was. That book was. It no longer amuses me to be all the things I was when I wrote that. But it is my story as I was then."
Joy
"I never give my real self. I have a hundred sides, and I turn first one way and then the other. I am playing a deep game. I have a number of strong cards up my sleeve. I have never been myself, excepting to two friends."
Friendship
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