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Beauty is not
caused. It is.
-- Emily Dickinson
1830-1886, American Poet
No; we have
been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter
a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The
real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?
-- Annie Dillard
1945-, American Author, Poet
There are
various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of
themselves in various styles... but there is one order of
beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men,
but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a
beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks
making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or
babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious
mischief --a beauty with which you can never be angry, but
that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the
state of mind into which it throws you.
-- George Eliot
1819-1880, British Novelist
It is
generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral
deficiencies hidden under the ''dear deceit'' of beauty.
-- George Eliot
1819-1880, British Novelist
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