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#1

“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.”
― Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales

tags: absurd, beauty, perverse, solitude

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#2

“Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss...." He turned to me. "But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.”
― Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped

tags: beauty, ebullience, enthusiasm, individuality, life, people

1466 likes

#3

“There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: beauty, photography, portraits

1495 likes

#4

“The human body is the best work of art.”
― Jess C. Scott

tags: art, beauty, body, body-image, dancer, desire, fashion, fitness, food-for-thought, funny, girl, hip-hop, honesty, humor, humour, lust, lust-for-life, passion, young, young-adult, young-adults, youth

1287 likes

#5

“The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: beauty, death, poetry, women

1043 likes

#6

“But he who dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.”
― Anne Bronte

tags: beauty, defenses, roses, thorns

3459 likes

#7

“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
― Confucious

tags: beauty, everything, seeing

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#8

“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

5523 likes

#9

“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: beauty, imperfections

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#10

“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: beauty, wonder, young-at-heart, youth, youthfulness

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#11

“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: beauty, diversity, parents, strength, young-people

681 likes

#12

“He had a new girl, and I told him she looked like Marilyn Monroe. He smiled because he thought I meant she was beautiful, and I smiled because I meant she looked like a corpse.”
― Jarod Kintz, The Titanic would never have sunk if it were made out of a sink.

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#13

“When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.”
― John Lennon

tags: beatles, beauty, life, nature, sadness

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#14

“The beauty of the world...has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: beauty, inspirational

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#15

“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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#16

“To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include that truth of contact or be forever hollow. To make love to the one true person who deserves that love is one of the few absolute rewards of being a human being, balancing all of the pain, loss, awkwardness, loneliness, idiocy, compromise, and clumsiness that go with the human condition. To make love to the right person makes up for a lot of mistakes.”
― Dan Simmons, The Rise of Endymion

tags: beauty, connection, happiness, inspiration, love, religion, sex

324 likes

#17

“Beauty awakens the soul to act.”
― Dante Alighieri

tags: beauty

363 likes

#18

“Beauty without expression is boring.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: beauty

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#19

“People accuse me of falling in love easily. It just means that I'm able to see the beauty in most of the people who cross paths with me and I appreciate it for what it is and also for what it isn't. Love is imperfect. Falling for someone's flaws is just as necessary as falling for their strengths. And people like myself, who fall into love easily, are sometimes the loneliest souls around at the end of the day.”
― Ashly Lorenzana

tags: beauty, falling-in-love, flaws, imperfection, loneliness, love, passion, people, souls, strength

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#20

“Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it. To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

tags: art, beauty

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#21

“Never forget:
we walk on hell,
gazing at flowers.”
― Kobayashi Issa

tags: beauty, life, old-songs, sword-sentiments, transcendence, wind

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#22

“Right. I look fine. Except I don't,' said Zora, tugging sadly at her man's nightshirt. This was why Kiki had dreaded having girls: she knew she wouldn't be able to protect them from self-disgust. To that end she had tried banning television in the early years, and never had a lipstick or a woman's magazine crossed the threshold of the Belsey home to Kiki's knowledge, but these and other precautionary measures had made no difference. It was in the air, or so it seemed to Kiki, this hatred of women and their bodies-- it seeped in with every draught in the house; people brought it home on their shoes, they breathed it in off their newspapers. There was no way to control it.”
― Zadie Smith, On Beauty

tags: beauty, body-image, feminism, women

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#23

“I am so beautiful, sometimes people weep when they see me. And it has nothing to do with what I look like really, it is just that I gave myself the power to say that I am beautiful, and if I could do that, maybe there is hope for them too. And the great divide between the beautiful and the ugly will cease to be. Because we are all what we choose.”
― Margaret Cho

tags: beauty, margaret-cho, self-love

186 likes

#24

“Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.”
― Yukio Mishima, Forbidden Colors

266 likes

#25

“History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty.”
― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

tags: 10th-anniversary-of-9-11, 9-11, beauty, faith, famous-quotes, famous-quotes-from-classic-books, grief, haiku, healing, history, human-rights-day, learning-from-history, national-history-day, quotes-by-aberjhani, recovery, remembering-september-11, world-suicide-prevention-day

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#26

“Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

tags: beauty, choice, cleverness, good-looks, questions

229 likes

#27

“I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?”
― Jean Kerr

tags: beauty

993 likes

#28

“The beauty of collaboration between older and younger generations is that we combine strength with wisdom—a surefire way to accomplish more for the glory of God.”
― Brett Harris

tags: beauty, collaboration, generations, god, strength, wisdom, youth

66 likes

#29

“The beautiful is always bizarre.”
― Charles Baudelaire

tags: art, baudelaire, beauty, life

697 likes

#30

“I hate slick and pretty things. I prefer mistakes and accidents. Which is why I like things like cuts and bruises - they're like little flowers. I've always said that if you have a name for something, like 'cut' or 'bruise,' people will automatically be disturbed by it. But when you see the same thing in nature, and you don't know what it is, it can be very beautiful.”
― David Lynch

tags: beauty, ugliness

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