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"The noble buoyancy of her attitude, its suggestion of soaring grace, revealed the touch of poetry in her beauty that Selden always felt in her presence, yet lost the sense of when he was not with her. Its expression was now so vivid that for the first time he seemed to see before him the real Lily Bart, divested of all the trivialities of her little world, and catching for a moment a note of that eternal harmony of whichher beauty was a part."
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"Beauty is beauty."
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"Oh, glorious Art!" thus mused the enthusiastic painter, as he trod the street. "Thou art the image of the Creator's own. The innumerable forms that wander in nothingness start into being at thy beck. The dead live again. Thou recallest them to their old scenes, and givest their gray shadows the lustre of a better life, at once earthly and immortal. Thou snatchest back the fleeing moments of History. With thee, there is no Past; for at thy touch, all that is great becomes forever present; and illustrious men live through long ages in the visible performance of the very deeds which made them what they are."
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"Beauty is subjective. You know how sometimes what makes a person attractive is the way they make you laugh or how it seems like they can read your mind?"
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"Everyone wants a little bit of something beautiful."
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"A goatee is to beards what diamonds are to ornaments."
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"Outer beauty pleases the EYE. Inner beauty captivates the HEART."
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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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"Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed."
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"I've alway found that the most beautiful people, truly beautiful inside and out, are the ones who are quietly unaware of their effect."
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"As for her hair, or rather hairs, they are too complicated to describe, but one system went down her back, lying in a thick pad there, while another, created for a lighter destiny, rippled around her forehead."
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"In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears."
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"I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting."
Life

"My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet."
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"I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views."
Being

"I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story."
Time

"When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say."
Time

"If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time."
Time

"The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it."
Money

"Do you know, I began to see what marriage is for. It's to keep people away from each other. Sometimes I think that two people who love each other can be saved from madness only by the things that come between them-children, duties, visits, bores, relations-the things that protect married people from each other. We've been too close together-that has been our sin. We've seen the nakedness of each other's souls."
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"They had never been at peace together, they two; and now he felt himself drawn downward into the strange mysterious depths of her tranquillity."
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