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Beauty Quotes
"Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness."
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"The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist."
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"I sincerely feel that beauty largely comes from within."
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"It is now time to reverse the trend we have seen developing over the years, that of beauty at all costs and health will take care of itself."
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"The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other."
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"When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences."
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"It's not fair the emphasis put on beauty, or on sexuality."
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"The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men."
61
"To find beauty, look above the boundaries of conformity."
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"Beauty fades! I just turned 29, so I probably don't have that many good years left in me."
60
"Curley's wife lay with a half-covering of yellow hay. And the meanness and the plannings and the discontent and the ache for attention were all gone from her face. She was pretty and simple, and her face was sweet and young. Now her rouged cheeks and reddened lips made her seem alive and sleeping very lightly. The curls, tiny little sausages, were spread on the hay behind her head and her lips were parted."
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"The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory."
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"Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical."
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"Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun."
57
"Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind."
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"Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty."
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"Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better."
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"And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done-- done, see you!-- under that sky there, every day."
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"I really like where Tony Robbins says that we're all hypnotized to see beauty this one specific way, and it's true."
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"But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose."
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"I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied."
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"It is conventional to call "monster" any blending of dissonant elements. I call "monster" every original inexhaustible beauty."
55
"Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is."
54
"Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?"
53
"I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation."
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"The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations."
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"There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness."
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"So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order."
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