"The test of beauty is whether it can……" — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

"The test of beauty is whether it can survive close knowledge."

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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26 Quotes by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings has 26 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
She lives a sophisticate's life among worldly people. At the slightest excuse she steps out of civilization, naked and relieved,…
Sift each of us through the great sieve of circumstance and you have a residue, great or small as the…
Magic birds were dancing in the mystic marsh. The grass swayed with them, and the shallow waters, and the earth…
It seemed a strange thing to him, when earth was earth and rain was rain, that scrawny pines should grow…
Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of…
A woman never forgets the men she could have had; a man, the women he couldn't
When a wave of love takes over a human being... such an exaltation takes him that he knows he has…
...a pie so delicate, so luscious, that I hope to be propped up on my dying bed and fed a…
No man should have proprietary rights over land who does not use that land wisely and lovingly.
The individual man is transitory, but the pulse of life and of growth goes on after he is gone, buried…
Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I…

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty;… — David Attenborough
Beauty has a lot to do with character. — Kevyn Aucoin
Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an… — Kevyn Aucoin
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You… — Kevyn Aucoin
That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty… — Kevyn Aucoin
Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. — Kevyn Aucoin
Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven. — Kevyn Aucoin
Love is the beauty of the soul. — Saint Augustine

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