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“The very notion that beauty is something we need to be protected from is insulting. [...] When you watch Olympic athletes in… — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
“Do you hear it?" Samuel asked, his eyes penetrating. "I don't hear it...but I know it's there." I struggled to express something… — Amy Harmon Copy Share Image
“Ava,’ he says quietly, but I’ve no doubt the whole room can hear him. The silence is screaming. ‘My beautiful girl.’ He… — Jodi Ellen Malpas Copy Share Image
“During a party, Luis Buñuel, seduced by Carrington’s beauty and emboldened by the notion that she had transcended all bourgeois morality, proposed… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
“..but if it does occur, then anyone can comprehend that above us and below us, outside of ourselves and deep within ourselves,… — László Krasznahorkai Copy Share Image
“The lesser mysteries of love For he who would proceed aright in this matter should begin in youth to visit beautiful form;… — Plato Copy Share Image
There is a thing that is strived for. A one in a million, a golden fish in a shoal of thousands. A… — Aron Szigeti Copy Share Image
“I held a brief debate with myself as to whether I should change my ordinary attire for something smarter. At last I… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
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“Holiness means wholeness. To say “God is holy” is to refer to the wholeness, fullness, beauty, and abundant life that overflows within… — Paul Ellis Copy Share Image
All these things have you said of beauty. Yet in truth you spoke not of her but of needs unsatisfied, And beauty… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
“Though the face before me was that of a young woman of certainly not more than thirty years, in perfect health and… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
Love is indeed Heaven upon Earth; since Heaven above would not be Heaven without it: For where there is not Love; there… — William Penn Copy Share Image
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“Eros (or call it lust if you will), is like a beautiful, magnificent Afghan Hound! A pure white Afghan Hound commanding respect… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
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“Oh little Poupchette, some may tell you that you are nobody's child, a child of defilement, a child begotten in fear and… — Philippe Claudel Copy Share Image
“He wandered over them again. He had called them into view, and it was not easy to replace the shroud that had… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Shall we dance?” She takes a moment to answer, as if the question has thrown her. “Um— okay.” He cannot tell if… — Romina Garber Copy Share Image
“The will to truth is enshrined in the mind. It is undeniable, inescapable, mutable only if one’s humanity itself is rejected, itself… — Jeffrey Panzer Copy Share Image
“I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories. The… — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
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“This is where Mother and I differ greatly. Her advice in the face of melancholy is: "Think about all the suffering in… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
“Human life begins by crying! Once a baby is born, it cries out. Maybe it cries in joy! So, the simple equation… — Md. Ziaul Haque Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Tulliver was what is called a good-tempered person,–never cried, when she was a baby, on any slighter ground than hunger and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“If we imagine creation to be something as simplistic as a utopian happy-go-lucky place where nothing ever will go wrong, we disparage… — Danielle Shroyer Copy Share Image
“There is really only one way to restore a world that is dying and in disrepair: to make beauty where ugliness has… — Toko-pa Turner Copy Share Image
“But if God is the trees and the flowers And the hills and the moonlight and the sun, Why should I call… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
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