#beauty

I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or "convulsive" beauty - beauty in the service of liberty. ↗

— Jeff Vandermeer

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It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it. ↗

— Voltaire

#beauty #feel #know #must #see

Technologies of easy travel "give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man’s inducement to tarry in one spot? Why, therefore, should he build a more cumbrous habitation than can readily be carried off with him? Why should he make himself a prisoner for life in brick, and stone, and old worm-eaten timber, when he may just as easily dwell, in one sense, nowhere,—in a better sense, wherever the fit and beautiful shall offer him a home? ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty. ↗

— Edward Witten

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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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I am an ordinary woman who did extraordinary things. The first to qualify as a ground engineer. The first to fly to Australia single-handed. A million people lined the streets of London when I came home. I waved to them from an open-topped car like the queen, the queen of the air. ↗

— Kate Lord Brown

#ata #beauty

He's Darkness. Unpleasant. I wouldn't trust him. Nor do I trust every mortal I meet. I don't know where evil comes from, and frankly it doesn't matter. Not right now. Histories and myths are renamed and reinvented eternally across the world. I can't speak to that. What I do know? This is your story. ↗

— Leanna Renee Hieber

#history #myth #religion #beauty

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul. ↗

— Saint Augustine

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The American bards shall be marked for generosity and affection and for encouraging competitors… . The great poets are also to be known by the absence in them of tricks and by the justification of perfect personal candor… . How beautiful is candor! All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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Because from now on, for you, I'll be searching for those moments of always within never/ Beauty, in this world. ↗

— Muriel Barbery

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