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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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"The beauty of a woman is not in her facial makeup but in the kindness of her soul."
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"Do what is beautiful to make yourself beautiful."
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"This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!"
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"Beauty often depends on not how you look but on who you are."
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"Be awesome! Smile like a flower."
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"There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection."
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"How can you find new beauty if you are never allowed to get out of conformity?"
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"The scent of flowers is the glory of gardens and the scent of art is the glory of Paris!"
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"In Berlin I especially enjoyed the orchestral concerts, and I attended a large number of them. I formed the acquaintance of a good many musicians, several of whom spoke of my playing in high terms."
Travel
"And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books."
Life
"When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make."
Despair
"The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South."
Friendship
"Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God."
God
"She was my first love, and I loved her as only a boy loves."
Love
"But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form."
Music
"Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville."
Music
"My mother was kept very busy with her sewing; sometimes she would have another woman helping her."
Family
"It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character."
Music
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