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It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction. – Richard Le Gallienne

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I shall give you hunger, and pain, and sleepless nights. Also beauty, and satisfactions known to few, and glimpses of the heavenly life. None of these you shall have continually, and of their coming and going you shall not be foretold. – Howard Lindsay

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You will also allow me to thank the Academy for inviting me to lecture in Stockholm, for its hospitality, and for the opportunity afforded me for admiring the charm of your people and the beauty of your country. – Guglielmo Marconi

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Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband. – Ambrose Bierce

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Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come. – Michelangelo

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