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Beauty Quotes
"And her heart burst like the stars do in the end, and She fell on her knees. But the whole world looked her in awe. She lit the whole universe with her fire for a moment. In the end, she was as beautiful as the stardust falling from the sky and her heart didn't ache anymore."
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"The beauty of a thought is true science fiction."
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"The rarest, truest beauty is visible only to the heart."
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"A face can have a thousand wrinkles, but the soul have none."
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"There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration."
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"As far as cosmetics are used for adornment in a conscious and creative way, they are not emblems of inauthenticity: it is when they are presented as the real thing, covering unsightly blemishes, disguising a repulsive thing so that it is acceptable to the world that their function is deeply suspect. The women who dare not go out without their false eyelashes are in serious psychic trouble."
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"There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection."
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"It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour."
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"If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning."
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"True beauty is not in the body, but in the heart of the beholder."
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"There was no question about it- the girl in the photograph was staggeringly beautiful. She was Miss Canal Zone, a runner-up in the Miss Universe Contest -- and in fact far more beautiful than the winner of the contests. Her beauty had frightened the judges."
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"Beauty will never fade away from the eyes of those who love one another."
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"Beauty is in the heart of the beholder."
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"She is not truly beautiful but something about her draws the eye."
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"Women show men beauty in things beyond their ambitions. Women tell men to stop and smell the roses."
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"I was thinking, as I watched her, how little it mattered- about her teeth, for instance. I know so many women who have kept all the things that she had lost, but whose inner glow has faded. Whatever else was gone, Antonia had not lost the fire of life."
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"Then Maeglin bowed low and took Turgon for lord and king, to do all his will; but thereafter he stood silent and watchful, for the bliss and splendour of Gondolin surpassed all that he had imagined from the tales of his mother, and he was amazed by the strength of the city and the hosts of its people, and the many things strange and beautiful that he beheld. Yet to none were his eyes more often drawn than to Idril the King's daughter, who sat beside him; for she was golden as the Vanyar, her mother's kindred, and she seemed to him as the sun from which all the King's hall drew its light."
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"Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever."
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"The most beautiful rose still has to contend with ugly thorns."
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"To be as pure and perfect as a flower, you must think and dream like a flower."
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"Beauty that steals the heart is often imperfect, suggests grace and kindness, and inspires tenderness more than it incites lust."
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"Her black is beautiful, his society is ugly."
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"People give flowers as presents because flowers contain the true meaning of love. Anyone tries to possess a flower will have to watch its beauty fading. But if you simply look at a flower on a field, you will keep it forever, because the flower is part of the evening and the sunset and the smell of damp earth and the clouds on the horizon."
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"It's her black wings that make her beautiful."
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"He must have been handsome when he was alive and was handsome still, although made monstrous by his pallor and her awareness of what he was. His mouth looked soft, his cheekbones as sharp as blades, and his jaw curved, giving him an off-kilter beauty. His black hair a mad forest of dirty curls."
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"The golden proportion is a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult to produce and the good easy."
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"Beautiful people don't need coats. They've got their auras to keep them warm."
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"Beauty is only to be admired, only to be loved - to be harvested carefully and then flung at a chosen lover like a gift of roses. It seems to me, so far as I can judge clearly at all, that my beauty would be used like that..."
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"Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused."
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"Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt."
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