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The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw. - Havelock Ellis

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw. – Havelock Ellis

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There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it. – Havelock Ellis

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The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men. – Havelock Ellis

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Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is not mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself. – Havelock Ellis

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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. – Hannah Arendt

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Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed. – George Henry Lewes

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The real beauty of it – key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing. – Vince Gill

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Knowing who the actors were as you were designing them helped, with Catherines beauty and Renees frailty, they directed me visually just by who they were. – Colleen Atwood

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