“The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.”
— Sallust
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Through my optimism I naturally prefer and
“Through my optimism I naturally prefer and capture the beauty in life.”
— Leni Riefenstahl
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Beauty is everlasting And dust is for
“Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.”
— Marianne Moore
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Well I do find the beauty in
“Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden.”
— Doris Day
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I thought of Paris as a beauty
“I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.”
— James Weldon Johnson
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For the greater beauty of the instrument,
“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.”
— David Rittenhouse
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There is a role and function for
“There is a role and function for beauty in our time.”
— Tadao Ando
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Whether you come from heaven or hell,
“Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!”
— Charles Baudelaire
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Beauty deprived of its proper foils and
“Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.”
— John Ruskin
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I do not see any beauty in
“I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.”
— Mary MacLane
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It is curious how, from time immemorial,
“It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction.”
— Richard Le Gallienne
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