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I am sure that God has given all his time in making you, the remaining human race has been created in haste.

She had not heard him enter, and hardly realized his presence there. She was yawning, and he saw the red interior of her mouth as if it had been a snake’s. She had stretched one...

God is the most beautiful, and beauty is the expression of God. If you can’t appreciate beauty in the world how can you understand God?

In the most general terms, the Enlightenment goes back to Plato’s belief that truth and beauty and goodness are connected; that truth and beauty, disseminated widely, will sooner or later lead to goodness. (While we’re...

A person’s mind can find to see only his outer image in the mirror, his heart can see the inner part of his life’s beauty, but his soul can see the whole structure of his...

The Devil hath powerTo assume a pleasing shape.

Beautiful girls should know how to defend themselves against the advances of gentlemen.

[A] smile is the most becomingornament that any lady can wear.

So why must it wound him that the most despairing music is full of beauty? Why must it hurt him and make him cynical and sad and untrusting?

If there is passion, let me feel its heat.I want my heart to beat fast,my breath raspy, my skin to burn.

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...

Great art projects a sense of inexhaustibility. In literature, particularly in poetry, this may be accomplished through ambiguity: Beneath each and every meaning that I can descry lie others, so that rereading holds out the...

in exceptional circumstances — exceptional in that all circumstances in life are exceptional, especially those which are nothing in themselves and come to be everything in their results.

Her nose was perfect; her lips exquisite. Like a master placing a go stone on the board after long deliberation, he placed the details of her beauty one by one in the misty dark and...

I dare you to say I’m not ugly.

At any time, and under any circumstances of human interest, is it not strange to see how little real hold the objects of the natural world amid which we live can gain on our hearts...

What’s the point of opening yourself up to your friends if they don’t notice your vulnerable state? The point of it all is to love friends completely and utterly, at their best and worst, and...

She’s Devine.She’s Magic. And she didn’t have to wait for anyone to tell her in order for her to believe that about herself. And that’s what made her so magically beautiful.

Then, as a single snowflake flares and flickers upon voicing its final breath, so two eyes make silent conversation with mine. A face as iridescent as candle-fire purls verse and poetry. My eyes read her...

Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.

Shakespeare had all these sonnets where what he said came down to this: Youth is fleeting and you’d better get married and have children and make a copy of the beauty you own because the...

A person however learned and qualified in his life’s work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant

He stood there a moment, listened to the creek, and let the mountain air blow against his face. Even with all this heartache, it was beautiful here.

The devil himself can become beauty, so we are told, to corrupt mankind.”(Marco)

The beauty of that June day was almost staggering. After the wet spring, everything that could turn green had outdone itself in greenness and everything that could even dream of blooming or blossoming was in...

It’s all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.

It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.

…see the blessing and beauty that you are.

To see the true beauty of a person, see through the mirror of your love.

That’s the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease.

I prefer the saddle to the streetcar and star-sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail leading into the unknown to any paved highway, and the deep peace of the wild to the...

Réduites à des théories générales, les mathématiques seraient une belle forme sans contenu.Reduced to general theories, mathematics would be a beautiful form without content.

Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.

The beauty of flames lies in their strange play, beyond all proportion and harmony. Their diaphanous flare symbolizes at once grace and tragedy, innocence and despair, sadness and voluptuousness. The burning transcendence has something of...

We are expected to be pretty and well-dressed until we drop.

Let beauty be your end. Why should you mint beauty into gold? Anyway, you can’t;

There is desire in the perfect, beauty in the imperfect.Thus I lust over the flawless,and fall amorously forceless to the flawed.

Attraction is easily manufactured.

I did. And if you stuck him, and stuffed him, and hung him on the wall, I’d be very glad to admire him. But in life he’s an arrogant pig, and I didn’t care for...

Life is crazy, unexpected, and endlessly beautiful.

Italian men are beautiful in the same way as French women, which is to say – no detail spared in the quest for perfection.

Colors shone with exceptional clarity in the rain. The ground was a deep black, the pine branches a brilliant green, the people wrapped in yellow looking like special spirits that were allowed to wander over...

Ah, sir, that’s just mean. She’s not a Victoria’s Secret model, but she’s pretty in her way.

Do you know, Mrs. Allan, I’m thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much.” “True friendship is a very helpful thing indeed,” said Mrs. Allan, “and we should have a very high ideal of it...

We are alive, the wolves said. And the world is beautiful.

The secret to youth is to fill your mind with beauty! Amen

I snorted “oh, beauty. What’s that good for?”Mary stared, her eyes round.”It won you the prince, did it not?”I snorted again, I prefer to think that he was captivated by my charming personality.” I giggled...

I have to confess, there is no limit in beauty

The beauty is in the mystery, don’t you agree?- Hayden