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At my age a man discovers regret, Senhor Mouse. I pursued blood instead of beauty. My memories are all of killing. I've forgotten the rest. Sometimes I cannot sleep. ↗

— John Speed

#age

Art is apotheosis; often, the complaint of beauty. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#art #beauty #complaint #dejan-stojanovic #literature

There stood a young man who had the figure of a Greek athlete and the face of an English one...Just where he began to be beautiful the clothes started. ↗

— E.M. Forster

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In a world of watered-down bestsellers and formula novels, Hitching to Nirvana eases back just enough to show the blade which cuts the real open, then bolts forward again, giving us a charged, swerving dance to self-actualization. Hitching to Nirvana is a magnetic forcefield, not just pulling us beautifully into the story, but into our own lives. It's rare when a writer can open the shared world with such a deft, personal touch. Janet Mason is a genius. ↗

— C.A. Conrad

#literary #women-s-fiction #beauty

What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory that is inelegant. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#beauty #physics #science #theory #beauty

The Press is the living jury of the Nation." James Gordon Bennett, editor of the New York Herald in 1841 ↗

— Daniel Stashower

#beauty

He has a wonderful beauty and stillness and you do not. Your poems are unpleasant. ↗

— Len Jenkin

#beauty

Writing a novel is like pottery. Your initial draft of your story is like a lump of clay. Editing is like shaping that piece of clay into something interesting and beautiful. ↗

— Monika Pardon

#beauty

One can be enlightened about proofs as well as theorems. Without enlightenment, one is merely reduced to memorizing proofs. With enlightenment about a proof, its flow becomes clear and it can become an item of astonishing beauty. In addition, the need to memorize disappears because the proof has become part of your soul. ↗

— Herbert S. Gaskill

#beauty

I am too rich already, for my eyes mint gold. - Coloured Money ↗

— Mervyn Peake

#beauty-in-nature #eyes #gold #riches #wealth