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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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Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance. – Hans Urs von Balthasar

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Beauty is not everything! – Chita Rivera

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Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false. – Richard Cecil

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San Francisco is a mad city – inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty. – Rudyard Kipling

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All commands from your lips are sweet, I say, and now have you not said the sweetest of all? Marry you…! – Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens

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