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Beauty Quotes
"Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments."
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"For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine."
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"Search for beauty without features, something deeper than any signs."
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"And Beauty is a form of Genius - is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation."
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"Whether you are sixteen or over sixty, remember, understatement is the rule of a fine makeup artist."
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"All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty paints and when it painted most, I shot."
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"Daylight reveals color; artificial light drains it."
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"We need a balanced, long term energy policy to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and preserve the beauty of the land we love."
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"She really was pretty, for a grown-up person, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative. I wonder what I would have done if she had smiled at me like that now: whether I would have handed my mind or my heart or my identify to her for the asking, as my father did."
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"Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty that it is considered with tranquil satisfaction; that it pleases if we also do not possess it and we are still far removed from demanding to possess it."
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"For the greater beauty of the instrument, the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness; but so contrived, that they may be taken off at pleasure, and others, much smaller, and fitter for some purposes, put in their places."
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"When beauty is seen through the windows of the soul - rainbows appear and everything is magical. It feels simply divine."
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"Unless action is taken soon - unless we can display the same vision of that earlier period - we will lose the treasure of California's open space and environmental beauty."
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"To be human is to seek beauty, Shallan. Do not despair, do not end the hunt because thorns grow in your way."
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"That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty."
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"Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror."
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"You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older."
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"The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it."
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"Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good."
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"Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow."
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"There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea."
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"Beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins."
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"In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry."
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"Butterflies don't know their wings' Colors, but others see their Splendor."
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"I should have told you the minute I saw you that you look beautiful. I do love the way you look tonight."
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"We need to theorize the meaning of beauty in our lives so that we can educate for critical consciousness, talking through the issues: how we acquire and spend money, how we feel about beauty, what the place of beauty is in our lives when we lack material privilege and even basic resources for living, the meaning and significance of luxury, and the politics of envy."
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"Ignore the world when it forgets to tell you that you are beautiful...A goddess needs no reminding..."
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"We cannot approach beauty. Its nature is like opaline doves'-neck lustres, hovering and evanescent. Herein it resembles the most excellent things, which all have this rainbow character, defying all attempts at appropriation and use."
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"Her eyes were like the sea before a storm on the Carolina coast."
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"Moon is the light from a lantern in heaven."
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"Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious."
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"Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts."
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