So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status it long

So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order. – Rowan D. Williams

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This is the beauty of the Quran: it asks you to reflect and reason, and not to worship the sun or moon but the One who has created everything. The Quran asks man to reflect upon the sun and moon and Gods creation in general. – Cat Stevens

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I think the beauty looks I most regret are those I was persuaded into. – Dita Von Teese

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Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. – Thomas Mann

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Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow. – Lord Chesterfield

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Here in L.A. the standard of beauty is kind of ridiculous. I want to be doing this when Im in my fifties and sixties and this isnt what Im going to look like. – Rose Byrne

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