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    Sylvia Plath
    “When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know.
    "Oh, sure you know," the photographer said.
    "She wants," said Jay Cee wittily, "to be everything.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata
    tags: beauty, delusion, goodness, lies, self-deception, wisdom
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: beauty, humour
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    Lao Tzu
    “The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
    tags: apothegm, beauty, truth
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    Judy Sheindlin
    “Beauty fades, dumb is forever.”
    ― Judge Judy Sheindlin, Beauty Fades, Dumb is Forever
    tags: beauty, intelligence, stupidity
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: attractiveness, beauty, humor, life
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    Sophia Loren
    “Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.”
    ― Sophia Loren
    tags: aesthetics, beauty, cosmetics
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls”
    ― Nietzsche
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    Audrey Hepburn
    “I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.”
    ― Audrey Hepburn
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    Coco Chanel
    “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
    ― Coco Chanel
    tags: courage, dignity, empowerment, freedom, independence, individuality, judgment, self-determination, speaking-out, thought
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    Yukio Mishima
    “True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.”
    ― Yukio Mishima
    tags: beauty, cruelty, love
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    Sophia Loren
    “A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.”
    ― Sophia Loren
    tags: beauty, dress, fashion, flirting, simile, woman, women
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    Wallace Stevens
    “Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.”
    ― Wallace Stevens
    tags: beauty
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    Donald Miller
    “All this beauty exists so you and I can see His glory, His artwork. It's like an invitation to worship Him, to know Him.”
    ― Donald Miller, To Own a Dragon: Reflections On Growing Up Without A Father
    tags: beauty
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    John Ruskin
    “Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless.”
    ― John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice: Volume I. The Foundations
    tags: beauty, inspirational
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    “Audrey had an angelic quality about her. She didn't act like she was better than everyone, she just had a presence, an energy, a sort of light coming from within her that was overwhelming.”
    ― Kevyn Aucoin
    tags: angel, audrey-hepburn, beauty, light
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    Yamamoto Tsunetomo
    “Singlemindedness is all-powerful.”
    ― Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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    Jeanette Winterson
    “When I look at my life I realise that the mistakes I have made, the things I really regret, were not errors of judgement but failures of feeling.”
    ― Jeanette Winterson
    tags: feelings, mistakes, regrets
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    Ernst F. Schumacher
    “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”
    ― E.F. Schumacher
    tags: complexity, elegance, genius, inspirational, simplicity, violence
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: goodness, simplicity, truth
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    William Golding
    “The greatest ideas are the simplest.”
    ― William Golding, Lord of the Flies
    tags: inspirational, simplicity
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: simplicity
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    Albert Einstein
    “Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: belongings, simplicity, success, values
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    David Levithan
    “It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.”
    ― David Levithan, Every Day
    tags: simplicity, truth
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    Lin Yutang
    “Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.”
    ― Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living
    tags: life, simplicity
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    John Maeda
    “Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.”
    ― John Maeda, The Laws of Simplicity
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    Thomas Sowell
    “People who pride themselves on their "complexity" and deride others for being "simplistic" should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.”
    ― Thomas Sowell, Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays
    tags: simplicity, truth
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    Anthony de Mello
    “The philosopher Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king. Said Aristippus, 'If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.'

    Said Diogenes, 'Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king".”
    ― Anthony de Mello
    tags: aristippus, diogenes, humor, money, philosophy, simplicity, voluntary
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “One should use common words to say uncommon things”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
    tags: clarity, naivete, simplicity, writing
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  • #31
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: greatness, simplicity
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