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Oh! kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas! / You really are beautiful! Pearls, / harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins! ↗

— Frank O'Hara

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Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

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The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Sex appeal is something that you feel deep down inside. It’s suggested rather than shown. I’m not as well-stacked as Sophia Loren or Gina Lollobrigida, but there is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don’t need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain. ↗

— Audrey Hepburn

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You put your soul into those paintings, and nothing in this world is more beautiful to me than that soul of yours. ↗

— R.K. Lilley

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We are like children building a sand castle. We embellish it with beautiful shells, bits of driftwood, and pieces of colored glass. The castle is ours, off limits to others. We’re willing to attack if others threaten to hurt it. Yet despite all our attachment, we know that the tide will inevitably come in and sweep the sand castle away. The trick is to enjoy it fully but without clinging, and when the time comes, let it dissolve back into the sea. ↗

— Pema Chödrön

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What is fear after all? It is indecision. You seek some way to resist, escape. There is none. ↗

— Anne Rice

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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon. ↗

— Ptolemy

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I don’t know what’s going on with you and Travis, but I know that he’s going to do something stupid to piss you off. It’s a tic he has. He doesn’t get close with anyone very often, and for whatever reason he’s let you in. But you have to overlook his demons. It’s the only way he’ll know.” “Know what?” I asked, “If you’ll climb over the wall. ↗

— Jamie McGuire

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I wonder if it will be—can be—any more beautiful than this,’ murmured Anne, looking around her with the loving, enraptured eyes of those to whom ‘home’ must always be the loveliest spot in the world, no matter what fairer lands may lie under alien stars. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

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