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"A miscreant with coiffed, scented hair, a slender waist, the hips of a woman and the chest of a Prussian officer, with a finely tied cravat, by all girls admired."
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"She has enough black eyeliner on to outline a corpse, and her skin's so pale she looks like she's just broken dawn."

"Himself an ugly man, insignificantof appearance, he prized very highly comeliness in others."

"Her face is silting up, like a pond; layers are accumulating. Every once in a while, when she can afford the time, she spends a few days at a spa north of the city, drinking vegetable juice and having ultrasound treatments, in search of her original face, the one she knows is under there somewhere; she comes back feeling toned up and virtuous, and hungry."

"There was a photograph of Trout. He was an old man with a full black beard. He looked like a frightened, aging Jesus, whose sentence to crucifixion had been commuted to imprisonment for life."

"For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason."

"The curve of my waist in a tight fitting summer dress can really make me new friends."

"Most of us don't notice how great we look until years, even decades later. Not long ago, I was looking at photos of myself at various ages and weights-way before the neckular deterioration began, way before the fanny pack of menopause-and I could see how gorgeous I must have looked to everyone else."

"All the men's clothes she wore just called attention to how much of a girl she was."

"For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures, upper arms."

"Sukey's approving glance swept over Amanda's black evening dress, made of shimmering crinkled silk that had been cut very low across the bosom and fitted tightly to her voluptuous shape. Rows of glittering jet beads adorned the bodice and long sleeves, while her gloves and shoes were of soft chamois leather. It was a sophisticated ensemble, one that made the most of Amanda's looks and generously displayed her bosom."
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"The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable."

"The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant."

"If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring."

"A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas."

"This is what men call genius, just as they call a painted face beauty and a richly attired figure majesty. The confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud."

"Who has been unhooking the stars without my permission, and putting them on the table in the guise of candles?"
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