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"The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events."
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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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"Her hair was full of lights."
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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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"Andrei, did you like the opera?""Not particularly.""Andrei, do you see what you're missing?""I don't think I do, Kira. It's all rather silly. And useless.""Can't you enjoy things that are useless, merely because they are beautiful?""No. But I enjoyed it.""The music?""No. The way you listened to it."
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"But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face."
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"There stood a young man who had the figure of a Greek athlete and the face of an English one...Just where he began to be beautiful the clothes started."
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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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"The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event."
Performance
"Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule."
Government
"The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise."
Choice
"It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work."
Work
"Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition."
Hope
"My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India."
Love
"Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes."
Books
"History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind."
History
"I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being."
Friendship
"The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature."
Nature
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