Quotes with beauty-truths

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  • John Keats Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Camille Paglia The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Katherine Anne Porter The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own -even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.
    Katherine Anne Porter
    American short-story writer (1890 - 1980)
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  • John Ray There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.
    John Ray
    English naturalist (1627 - 1705)
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  • Joseph Addison There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • John Erskine There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
    John Erskine
    American educator and author, pianist and composer (1879 - 1951)
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  • Voltaire To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Franz Kafka Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
    Franz Kafka
    Chech German-speaking writer (1883 - 1924)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling 'Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just IT. Some women will stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Helen Rowland A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Marina Tsvetaeva A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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  • Andrew Matthews A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.
    Andrew Matthews
    Australian speaker and author of self-help books (1957 - )
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  • Lee Siegel A jokes and a truth are not mutually exclusive. The best jokes are true and the best truths are jokes.
    Laughing Matters Act one: Satire
    Lee Siegel
    American academic (1945 - )
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  • Bette Midler A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.
    Bette Midler
    American singer, songwriter, actress and comedian (1945 - )
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  • Billie Joe Armstrong A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.
    Billie Joe Armstrong
    American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor (1972 - )
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh A man of meditation functions differently. Whatever profession he chooses, it does not matter. He will bring to his profession some quality of sacredness. He may be making shoes, or he may be cleaning the roads, but he will bring to his work some quality, some grace, some beauty, which is not possible without samādhi.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • E. B. White A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Mark Twain A soiled baby, with a neglected nose, cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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