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It is hard to laugh at the need for beauty and romance, no matter how tasteless, even horrible, the results of that need are. But it is easy to sigh. Few things are sadder than the truly monstrous. ↗

— Nathanael West

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But she knew that no matter what beauty lay behind, it must remain there. No one could go forward with a load of aching memories. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

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My Heart Is a Holy Place My heart is a holy place Wiser and holier than I know it to be Wiser than my lips can speak A spring of mystery and grace. You have created my heart And have filled it with things of wonder. You have sculpted it, shaped it with your hands Touched it with your breath. In its own season it reveals itself to me. It shows me rivers of gold Flowing in elegance And hidden paths of infinite beauty. You touch me with your stillness as I await its time. You have made it a dwelling place of richness and intricacies Of wisdom beyond my understanding Of grace and mysteries, from your hands. ↗

— Patricia Van Ness

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Music is the heart of life." She speaks love; "without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful. ↗

— Franz Liszt

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Happiness is the secret to all beauty; there is no beauty that is attractive without happiness. ↗

— Christian Dior

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Seek on high bare trails Sky-reflecting violets... Mountain-top jewels ↗

— Matsuo Bashō

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I love the way she feels in the curve of my arm. I love her unpretentious beauty, her intelligence, her nerve. But could I ever love her? The concept of falling in love is completely foreign, something I can’t bring myself to accept. Her hair pillows my cheek and her hand on my leg is warm. I care about you, Conner, and I hate to see you hurting. I want to respond but can’t find the pretty words I need. ↗

— Ellen Hopkins

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I did, of course, on both counts, and started going out with the boy I lost my virginity to - all of it. He lost his to me too, except that neither of us felt we had lost anything - just discovered the meaning of life and love and everything else unnecessary in between. ↗

— Elly Varrenti

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As with companions so with books. We may choose those which will make us better, more intelligent, more appreciative of the good and the beautiful in the world, or we may choose the trashy, the vulgar, the obscene, which will make us feel as though we've been 'wallowing in the mire. ↗

— David O. McKay

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But how can we venture to reprove or praise the universe! Let us beware of attributing to it heartlessness and unreason or their opposites: it is neither perfect nor beautiful nor noble, and has no desire to become any of these; it is by no means striving to imitate mankind! It is quite impervious to all our aesthetic and moral judgements! It has likewise no impulse to self-preservation or impulses of any kind; neither doe sit know any laws. Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to command, no one to obey, no one to transgress... ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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