Beauty Quotes
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Even so, there were times I saw freshness and beauty. I could smell the air, and I really loved rock 'n' roll. Tears were warm, and girls were beautiful, like dreams. I liked movie theaters, the darkness and intimacy, and I liked the deep, sad summer nights.
Haruki Murakami
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Yangi, a philosopher, art historian and poet, had evolved a theory of why some objects - pots, baskets, cloth made by unknown craftsmen - were so beautiful. In his view, they expressed unconscious beauty because they had been made in such numbers that the craftsman had been liberated from his ego.
Edmund de Waal
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Rachell believed passionately in the value of beauty. If she was pressed for time she considered the filling of her bowl with flowers more important for her family's welfare than the making of a cake for tea. On this point her family entirely disagreed with her.
Elizabeth Goudge
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There are people whose faces assume an unaccustomed beauty and majesty the moment they cease to look out of their eyes.
Marcel Proust
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Some of the words that pop up on the show have had terrible connotations. But that's the beauty of 'Countdown.'
Rachel Riley
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But methings wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it
William Wycherley
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Does not beauty confer a benefit upon us, even by the simple fact of being beautiful?
Victor Hugo
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All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.
Evelyn Underhill
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Remember always that the least plain sister is the family beauty.
George Bernard Shaw
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Laughter and joy are part of the beauty of life.
Diogo Morgado
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A queen, devoid of beauty is not queen; She needs the royalty of beauty's mien.
Victor Hugo
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For he who would proceed aright... should begin in youth to visit beautiful forms... out of that he should create fair thoughts; and soon he will of himself perceive that the beauty of one form is akin to the beauty of another, and that beauty in every form is one and the same.
Plato
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When the poet's sentiments are overly visible, the audience may become uncomfortable. Japanese ritual is the opposite. By writing simply and only about what is there, the audience is drawn into the poet's world. Their imagination is stimulated, and a silent connection is established. I believe this is where the most important aspect of the Japanese sense of beauty lies.
Naoto Fukasawa
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Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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You cannot have good architecture merely by asking people's advice on occasion. All good architecture is the expression of national life and character; and it is produced by a prevalent and eager national taste, or desire for beauty.
John Ruskin
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To make a friend, forgiveness is required which burns up all things, leaving only beauty; but to destroy friendship is easy.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Storytelling is about patience, about making sense of the moments of pathos and beauty that you find, and about carrying these moments back into your own life.
Michael Paterniti
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For the trouble with the real folk of Faerie is that they do not always look like what they are; and they put on the pride and beauty that we would fain wear ourselves.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Fashion: a beautiful thing that becomes ugly. Art: an ugly thing that becomes beautiful.
Coco Chanel
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Good cops make their bosses look good, and Hector was a one-man beauty school.
Edward Conlon
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And the beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows!
Audrey Hepburn
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The idea that beauty is unimportant or a cultural construct is the real beauty myth. We have to understand beauty, or we will always be enslaved by it.
Nancy Etcoff
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But maybe you see beauty in me because you are beautiful, not because I am.
Amy Harmon
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Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
George Bernard Shaw