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Beauty

I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after. – Wallace Stevens

Beauty and the devil are the same thing. – Robert Mapplethorpe

I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people. – Ben Okri

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused. – Baruch Spinoza

Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful. – Gene Tierney

I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it. – Studs Terkel

Bracketing has turned all my experiences, remembered and present, into a gallery of miracles where I wander around dazzled by the beauty of events I cannot explain. – Martha Beck

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love. – Louis Kahn

Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison. – Gerard Manley Hopkins

We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in our differences. – Carre Otis

My everyday beauty routine is always rushed and pretty simple. – Cate Blanchett

Do not confuse beauty with beautiful. Beautiful is a human judgment. Beauty is All. The difference is everything. – Matthew Fox

Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion. – Jean-Luc Godard

Fashion fosters cliches of beauty, but I want to tear them apart. – Miuccia Prada

When you are balanced and when you listen and attend to the needs of your body, mind, and spirit, your natural beauty comes out. – Christy Turlington

In art economy is always beauty. – Henry James

I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time. – Robert Browning

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together. – Petrarch

I really admire a woman for her intelligence, her personality. Beauty is not enough. – Roberto Cavalli

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate. – Jack London