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“Beauty consists of its own passing, just as we reach for it. It’s the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when you see both their beauty and their death.
...Does this mean that this is how we must live our lives? Constantly poised between beauty and death, between movement and its disappearance?
Maybe that’s what being alive is all about: so we can track down those moments that are dying.”
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“Beauty isn’t just outer appearance. Beauty isn’t just what your hair looks like, what your body looks like, how full your lips are, or how smooth your skin is. Beauty is so much more than people think. What really makes you beautiful is your inner beauty, Selena. You shine with your attitude, with your actions, yours words, and with your behavior. Outer beauty only gets attention, but inner beauty captures the heart. Remember: Beauty is ephemeral, but inner beauty remains forever.”
― Rose J. Bell, Under the Moon