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a single-file army of ants biting a mammoth tree into uniform grains and hauling it down to the dark for their ravenous queen. and, in reply, a choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. this forest eats itself and lives forever. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#forest #nature #beauty

You were all given the same chance. This day was your test.... I was watching to see what you would do. I need someone who can wait with patience, and yet know when it is time to act without fear. Someone who is able to see patterns even when none may be obvious. Someone who can express his own artistic viewpoint.... I want someone who will leave the world a more beautiful place than he found it. ↗

— Lisa Magnum

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His [Death] voice is cold at first, John. It seems unfeeling. But if you listen without fear, you find that when he speaks, the most ordinary words become poetry. When he stands close to you, your life becomes a song, a praise. When he touches you, your smallest talents become gold; the most ordinary loves break your heart with their beauty. ↗

— Martine Leavitt

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Dessert without cheese is like a beauty with only one eye ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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You can see a rose both in two ways. First, through its beautiful petals. The other, through its thorns ↗

— Aries Eroles

#rose #beauty

A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun. ↗

— John Steinbeck

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Beauty and grace command the world. ↗

— Park Benjamin

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Everyone carries an atmosphere about him. It may be healthful and invigorating, or it may be unwholesome and depressing. It may make a little spot of the world a sweeter, better, safer place to live in; or it may make it harder for those to live worthily and beautifully who dwell within its circle. ↗

— J.R. Miller

#sweetness #beauty

Looking at the room, I can tell that you are the most beautiful girl in the room. (In the whole wide room) And when you're on the street (Depending on the street) I bet you are definitely in the top three ↗

— Flight of the Conchords

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I'm the Beast. You're the Beauty," he said. "It's all a story, isn't it? ↗

— Margaret Mahy

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