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"It's the imperfections that make things beautiful."
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"A goatee is to beards what diamonds are to ornaments."

"It does not much matter that an individual loses two or three hundred pounds in buying a bad picture, but it is to be regretted that a nation should lose two or three hundred thousand in raising a ridiculous building."

"They wore their strange beauty like war paint."

"The light music of whisky falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude."

"I hate people who collect things and classify things and give them names and then forget all about them. That's what people are always doing in art. They call a painter an impressionist or a cubist or something and then they put him in a drawer and don't see him as a living individual painter any more."

"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."

"A slight deviation form what we would think of as symmetry gives us a bit more information and the mind seems to enjoy this stimulation because it is always looking for value. Beauty is a slight deviation from expectation."

"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?"

"Everyone wants a little bit of something beautiful."

"Works of art are infinitely solitary and nothing is less likely to reach them than criticism. Only love can grasp them and hold them and do them justice."
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"The thought of Peter and John Ambrose McClaren in the same space together again is discomforting. Where would I even look?"

"Sometimes it's like people are a million times more beautiful to you in your mind. It's like you see them through a special lens - but maybe if it's how you see them,that's how they really are. It's like the whole tree falling in the forest thing."

"It's a known fact, that in life, you can't have everyhing. In my heart, I knew that I loved them both as much as it is possible to love two people at the same time. Conrad and I were linked, we would always be linked. That wasn't something I could do away with. And I know that now--that love isn't something you can erase--no matter how hard you try."

"But you never said anything! Not one frigging word, Lara Jean!Automatically I say, 'Don't say 'frig.'S'Not one frigging word, Kitty repeats with a shake of her head.Peter cracks up, and I give him a dirty look. 'It all happened really fast, he offers. 'There was barely time to tell anybody-'Was I talking to you? Kitty snaps. 'No, I don't think so. I was talking to my sister.Peter's eyes widen, and I can see him trying to keep a straight face."

"I think that time might be different for young people. The minutes longer, stronger, more vibrant."

"You were gullible,' he said. And then, 'When you were really little, you hated carrots. You wouldn't eat them. But then I told you that if you ate carrots, you'd get X-ray vision. And you believed me. You believed everything I said.' I did. I really did. I believed him when he said that carrots could give me X-ray vision. I believed him when he told me that he'd never cared about me. And then, later that night, when he tried to take it back, I guess I believed him again. Now I didn't know what to believe. I just knew I didn't believe in him anymore."
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