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My heart that
was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return
to my body when they scatter?
-- Kotomichi
The esthete
stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer
stands to love, and the politician stands to life.
-- Karl Kraus
1874-1936, Austrian Satirist
That which is
striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is
good is always beautiful.
-- Ninon De L'Enclos
1620-1705, French Courtesan
All God's
children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in
fact, barely presentable.
-- Fran Lebowitz
1951-, American Journalist
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Sunsets are so
beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking
through the gates of Heaven.
-- Sir John Lubbock
1834-1913, British Statesman,
Banker, Naturalist
O, thou art
fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand
stars.
-- Christopher Marlowe
1564-1593, British Dramatist,
Poet
Beauty is an
ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing
to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you
can smell it and that is all.
-- W. Somerset Maugham
1874-1965, British Novelist,
Playwright
The ideal has
many names, and beauty is but one of them.
-- W. Somerset Maugham
1874-1965, British Novelist,
Playwright
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