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"It seems to me that the pleasure one feels in a work of art is just one thing that one does not have to explain."
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"The eye is the jewel of the body."
"The subject may be crude and repulsive. Its expression is artistically modulated and balanced. This is style. This is art. This is the only thing that really matters in books."
"Purposefully look for something beautiful today."
"There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy."
"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."
"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."
"I've alway found that the most beautiful people, truly beautiful inside and out, are the ones who are quietly unaware of their effect."
"Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul."
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"Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement."
"To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies."
"Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening."
"As in most families, the mere struggle to have anything of one's own, to be one's self at all, creates an element of strain that keeps everybody almost at the breaking point."
"And I advise ye to think well, he told her It's better to be a stray dog in this world than a man without money. I've tried it both ways, and I know. A poor man stinks, and God hates him."
"The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world."
"Either a building is part of a place or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger."
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