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"But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face."
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"A goatee is to beards what diamonds are to ornaments."
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"It does not much matter that an individual loses two or three hundred pounds in buying a bad picture, but it is to be regretted that a nation should lose two or three hundred thousand in raising a ridiculous building."
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"They wore their strange beauty like war paint."
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"The light music of whisky falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude."
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"I hate people who collect things and classify things and give them names and then forget all about them. That's what people are always doing in art. They call a painter an impressionist or a cubist or something and then they put him in a drawer and don't see him as a living individual painter any more."
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"A slight deviation form what we would think of as symmetry gives us a bit more information and the mind seems to enjoy this stimulation because it is always looking for value. Beauty is a slight deviation from expectation."
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"Beauty is subjective. You know how sometimes what makes a person attractive is the way they make you laugh or how it seems like they can read your mind?"
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"Everyone wants a little bit of something beautiful."
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"Works of art are infinitely solitary and nothing is less likely to reach them than criticism. Only love can grasp them and hold them and do them justice."
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"I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object."
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"There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad."
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"There were poisons so subtle that to know their properties one had to sicken of them. There were maladies so strange that one had to pass through them if one sought to understand their nature."
Knowledge
"I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life."
Philosophy
"The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means."
Fiction
"The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable."
Philosophy
"I have forgotten all about my school days. I have a vague impression that they were detestable."
Irony
"And the young Fisherman said to himself: "How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver."
Philosophy
"In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way.I don't think you should be so proud of that, though I am sure it must have been very pleasant."
Behavior
"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for."
Philosophy
"This woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night."
Society
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