We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more

We also maintain – again with perfect truth – that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination. – Richard Le Gallienne

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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see. – Vera Brittain

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Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty — they merely move it from their faces into their hearts. – Martin Buxbaum

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