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"My dears, laugh at me if you like; it is not conventionally beautiful, but there is something in its quaint old face which pleases me. If it could play the piano, I am sure it would really play."
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"Then, were not summer's distillation leftA liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass,Beauty's effect with beauty were bereft,Nor it nor no remembrance what it was.But flowers distilled, though they with winter meet,Leese but their show; their substance still lives sweet."

"Be beautiful and you are doing your part to create a more beautiful world."

"You don't have to be beautiful to have a beautiful life."

"Not the eyes, but the heart sees the beauty."

"We complain that the world is an ugly place to live and grow, we never learn to see the beauty of the world."

"You are prettier than you can imagine."

"Enjoy the beauty of a peacock to reveal your own beauty on the canvas of your mind."
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"Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness."

"Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages."

"As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress."

"Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself."

"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."

"There is nothing like desire for obstructing any resemblance between what one says and what one has on one's mind."

"And the others too were beginning to remark in Swann that abnormal, excessive, shameful and deserved senescence of bachelors, of all those for whom it seems that the great day which knows no morrow must be longer than for other men, since for them it is a void of promise, and from its dawn the moments steadily accumulate without any subsequent partition among offspring."
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