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Beauty Quotes
"There is something divine in mindless beauty, and Mersault was particularly responsive to it."
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"We all know you're beautiful, Scott."
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"The most beautiful thing that you can show people is how to reveal their own beauty to themselves."
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"Don't die on me," she ordered. "You are not dying on me.""Yes, ma'am." He felt light-headed, but she was about the most beautiful thing he'd ever seen. Her hair was smoldering. Her face was smudged with soot. She had a cut on her arm, her dress was torn, and she was missing a boot. Beautiful."
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"He was one of those who are not born handsome, but develop charming features with age by continuously engaging their brains with intelligent thoughts."
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"Beauty is more popular than virtues because it is more visible than virtues."
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"It's a very Greek idea, and a very profound one. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. And what could be more terrifying and beautiful, to lose control completely? To throw off all the chains of being for an instant, to shatter the accident of our mortal selves?"
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"Billie laughed at that, full and throaty, and once again she became so incandescently beautiful that George was half-tempted to throw a blanket over her, just to stop anyone else from wanting her."
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"Sadly, the signals that allow men and women to find the partners who most please them are scrambled by the sexual insecurity initiated by beauty thinking. A woman who is self-conscious can't relax to let her sensuality come into play. If she is hungry she will be tense. If she is 'done up' she will be on the alert for her reflection in his eyes. If she is ashamed of her body, its movement will be stilled. If she does not feel entitled to claim attention, she will not demand that airspace to shine in. If his field of vision has been boxed in by 'beauty'--a box continually shrinking--he simply will not see her, his real love, standing right before him."
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"If beauty is relative, then any and everything when compared to the beauty of God is absolutely hideous."
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"If she was beautiful at rest she was doubly so awake. Asleep she was a painting of a fire. Awake she was the fire itself."
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"It is commonplace observation that women are forever trying to straighten their hair if it is curly and curl it if it is straight, bind their breasts if they are large and pad them if they are small, darken their hair if it is light and lighten it if it is dark. Not all these measures are dictated by the fantom of fashion. They all reflect dissatisfaction with the body as it is, and an insistent desire that it be otherwise, not natural but controlled, fabricated. Many of the devices adopted by women are not cosmetic or ornamental, but disguise of the actual, arising from fear and distaste."
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"If you look at old pictures, Irene Casey is so pretty. Not just young, but pretty the way you look when your face goes smooth, the skin around your eyes and lips relaxed, the pretty you only look when you love the person taking the picture."
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"Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait."
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"It was the kind of moonthat I would want to send back to my ancestorsand gift to my descendantsso they know that I too,have been bruised...by beauty."
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"Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear."
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"If a beautiful thing were to remain beautiful for all eternity, I'd be glad, but all the same I'd look at it with a colder eye. I'd say to myself: You can look at it any time, it doesn't have to be today."
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"Beauty exists, even in unlikely places. The key isn't to open your eyes but to open your heart."
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"We are all looking for beauty all around us, only those whose heart is loving and appreciative will find it."
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"It is difficult for flowers to hide their beauty, that is why they are always picked first."
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"Open the bloom of your heart and become a gift of beauty to the world."
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"World will be a beautiful place only with beautiful minds!"
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"Beauty is everywhere you look, but you have to look."
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"The soul's rainbow has more colors than the sky's stars."
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"Be kind. It will reveal your true inner beauty."
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"What does this beauty or than music mean to you? You cannot see the waves rolling up the beach or hear their roar. What do they mean to you?' In the most evident sense they mean everything. I cannot fathom or define their meaning any more than I can fathom or define love or religion or goodness."
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