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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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"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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"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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"était tard ; ainsi qu’une médaille neuve
La pleine lune s’étalait,
Et la solennité de la nuit, comme un fleuve
Sur Paris dormant ruisselait."
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"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."
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"I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object."
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"Beauty is charm."
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"You can only possess beauty through understanding it."
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"Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna."
Beauty

"A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself."
Information

"Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind."
Civilization

"Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable."
Evil

"Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another."
Reason

"Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism."
Criticism

"The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race."
Trust

"I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual."
Faith

"Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch."
Faith

"One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions."
Truth
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