#beauty

Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard. ↗

— Albert Camus

#beauty

That's why it's always worth having a few philosophers around the place. One minute it's all is truth beauty and is beauty truth, and does a falling tree in the forest make a sound if there's no one there to hear it, and then just when you think they're going to start dribbling one of 'em says, incidentally, putting a thirty-foot parabolic reflector on a high place to shoot the rays of the sun at an enemy's ships would be a very interesting demonstration of optical principles. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

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Once upon a time, Sleeping Beauty decided to take a nap from which she would never wake up. ↗

— Rachel Cohn

#beauty

Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#poetry #beauty

I knew everything happened for a reason. I just wished the reason would hurry up and make itself known. ↗

— Christina Lauren

#everything-happens-for-a-reason #beauty

She'd proven to be one of the most aggravating people I'd ever met. Unfortunately for me, she was also the best sex I'd ever had. Fuck, he'd better never get that far. I wasn't sure I knew where to hide a body around here. ↗

— Christina Lauren

#humour #beauty

So that was Chris and her reading and schooling, two Chrisses there were that fought for her heart and tormented her. You hated the land and the coarse speak of the folk and learning was brave and fine one day; and the next you'd waken with the peewits crying across the hills, deep and deep, crying in the heart of you and the smell of the earth in your face, almost you'd cry for that, the beauty of it and the sweetness of the Scottish land and skies. ↗

— Lewis Grassic Gibbon

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But I gotta say, I am so proud right now.” Axel flattened his hand over his heart. “You borrowed my patented move, proving I’m made of more than awesome. I’m awesalicious. Is that a word? It’s probably a girl word, but who cares! Seriously. Do you see a tear in my eye? Because I’m pretty sure I feel one. ↗

— Gena Showalter

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Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#love #beauty

What she looks like and what she is capable of doing are two different things. Wickedly beautiful. ↗

— Cameron Jace

#wicked #beauty