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La beauté séduit la chair pour obtenir la permission de passer jusqu'à l'âme. ↗

— Simone Weil

#the-flesh #the-soul #beauty

All this is on a strictly need-to-know basis. As in, nobody else needs to know. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#beauty

It’s hard to walk briskly at this time of year; the accelerating pace of unfolding spring slows my own. I repeatedly stop- to watch what’s moving. Soon the torrent of migrants will completely overwhelm my ability to keep up with all the changes. But it’s easy to revel in the exuberance and the sense of rebirth, renewal. ↗

— Carl Safina

#spring #walking #change

Aunque moverse duela como una enfermedad. La mirada se detiene en los rostros que murmuran y no puedes oír lo que están diciendo porque en tu cabeza, el estruendo de los gritos es demasiado fuerte. Aun así, deja que te tiren del brazo y que te suban al coche, y sigues. Porque puedes cuando alguien te dice que puedes. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#beauty

The beauty of sorrow is superior to the beauty of life. ↗

— Georges Rodenbach

#the-bells-of-bruges #beauty

And yonder sits a maiden, The fairest of the fair, With gold in her garment glittering, And she combs her golden hair. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#blonde #hair #beauty

Can human folly harbour a more arrogant or ungrateful thought than the notion that whereas God makes man beautiful in body, man makes himself pure in heart? ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#human-folly #purity #beauty

From the top of the bus she could see the vast bowl of London spreading out to the horizon: splendid shops with mannequins in the window, interesting people and already a much bigger world. ↗

— Julia Gregson

#beauty #bus #city #east-of-the-sun #julia-gregson

Beauty is single. Only ugliness is multiple, and even then its multiplicity is soon exhausted. ↗

— Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly

#ugliness #beauty

Oh my God, of course she was Lily—and she was sickeningly beautiful. Suddenly, I was even more nauseous than usual. I was going to vomit all over myself and be dubbed hurl-girl for the rest of eternity. I was going to throw up all over Lillian Hunt. - Nicole Abbot ↗

— Jennifer DeLucy

#whisper-of-light #beauty