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Charles Baudelaire
All beauties, like all possible phenomena, have something of the eternal and something of the ephemeral - of the absolute and the particular
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Charles Baudelaire
There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness
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Jean Rostand
Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued
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Karl Kraus
The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life
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Khalil Gibran
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart
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Khalil Gibran
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror
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Socrates
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny
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Aldous Huxley
Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder
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Edmund Burke
Beauty is the promise of happiness
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Edmund Burke
Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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