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"The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events."
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"I would wear pink because I knew my future was anything but rosy. I would accessorize myself to the hilt, and I would wear flirty shoes because my world needed more beauty to counter all the ugliness in it. I would wear pink because I hated gray, I didn't deserve white, and I was sick of black."

"Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous."

"Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language."

"They wore their strange beauty like war paint."

"Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them."

"Black as night and as beautiful as forever."

"We ascribe beauty to that which is simple which has no superfluous parts which exactly answers its ends."

"It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow makes you feel beautiful too."

"Beauty without grace is like a fish far displaced from the water and looking at this kind of beauty is like watching that fish die right there on the cement in front of you."

"There is nothing more beautiful than the light of a Candle and the Aroma of it's Heart."
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"Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself."

"Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused."

"But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous."

"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."

"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."
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