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"That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful."
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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!"

"Do what is beautiful to make yourself beautiful."

"This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!"

"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."

"How can you find new beauty if you are never allowed to get out of conformity?"

"The scent of flowers is the glory of gardens and the scent of art is the glory of Paris!"
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"Let him talk," said Dupin, who had not thought it necessary to reply. "Let him discourse; it will ease his conscience, I a satisfied with having defeated him in his own castle."

"That single thought is enough. The impulse increases to a wish, the wish to a desire, the desire to an uncontrollable longing, and the longing (to the deep regret and mortification of the speaker, and in defiance of all consequences,) is indulged."

"The teeth!-the teeth!-they were here, and there, and everywhere, and visibly and palpably before me; long, narrow, and excessively white, with the pale lips writhing about them, as in the very moment of their first terrible development."

"If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being?"

"Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made."

"Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence."

"If Pierre Bon-Bon had his failings--and what great man has not a thousand?--if Pierre Bon-Bon, I say, had his failings, they were failings of very little importance--faults indeed which, in other tempers, have often been looked upon rather in the light of virtues."
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