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Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that be

Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due – she reminds us too much of a prima donna. – E. M. Forster

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Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness. – Hans Urs von Balthasar

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People dont associate red hair, pale skin, and freckles with beauty. – Shirley Manson

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To love beauty is to see light. – Victor Hugo

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For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine. – Matthew Prior

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