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Decay and disease are often beautiful, like the pearly tear of the

Decay and disease are often beautiful, like the pearly tear of the shellfish and the hectic glow of consumption. – Henry David Thoreau, journal, 1852 June 11th

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Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind. – James Hillman

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I played with the same band for years and years and theres a beauty to having one solid core that you keep exploring. On the other hand, its nice to throw yourself in different situations where you find out things about your own resources. – Grant-Lee Phillips

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Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty. – Dodie Smith

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It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see. – Samuel Johnson

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