“It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.”
— David Attenborough
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“There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.”
— Francis Bacon
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“Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.”
— Edmund Burke
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“A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement.”
— Paul D. Boyer
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“I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.”
— Charlie Chaplin
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“Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.”
— Dodie Smith
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“Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that.”
— Emily Prager
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“The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.”
— Sarah Bernhardt
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“Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.”
— Gustave Courbet
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“I shall give you hunger, and pain, and sleepless nights. Also beauty, and satisfactions known to few, and glimpses of the heavenly life. None of these you shall have continually, and of their coming and going you shall not be foretold.”
— Howard Lindsay
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“The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.”
— Virginia Woolf
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