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"Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul."
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"There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy."
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"Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics."
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"A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one's life. There is an urge to say, 'I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me."
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"The cat . . . is for the man who appreciates beauty as the one living force in a blind and purposeless universe."
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"No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful."
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"Beauty lies in the eye."
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"The best works of art are never innocuous: they alter the viewer's perceptual predictions. It is only when the patterns of our vision are disrupted that we truly pay attention and must ask ourselves what we are looking at."
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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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"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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"I would wear pink because I knew my future was anything but rosy. I would accessorize myself to the hilt, and I would wear flirty shoes because my world needed more beauty to counter all the ugliness in it. I would wear pink because I hated gray, I didn't deserve white, and I was sick of black."
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"Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats."
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"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
Friendship
"Pride ruined the angels."
Pride
"Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire."
Literature
"America is another name for opportunity."
Opportunity
"As we grow old, the beauty steals inward."
Wisdom
"Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words."
Diplomacy
"There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day."
Preparation
"No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character."
Self-Control
"The reward of a thing well done is having done it."
Achievement
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