Beauty Quote by Thornton Wilder

“It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.” quote by Thornton Wilder — Download Open image

“It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.”

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The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.

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“But while they continued staring into one another’s face waiting for the miracle of science the pain grew worse.”

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Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

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