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To give pain is the tyranny to make happy, the true empire of beau

To give pain is the tyranny to make happy, the true empire of beauty. – Samuel Butler

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Life is like music it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. – Samuel Butler

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Music
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Samuel Butler
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Youth is like spring, an over-praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits. – Samuel Butler

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Seasons
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To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead. – Samuel Butler

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Death
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Beauty
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Beauty lasts five minutes. Maybe longer if you have a good plastic surgeon. – Tia Carrere

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People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them. – Judith Jamison

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Beauty

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be. – Bob Dylan

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Beauty

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

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No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was natural, really, that I would take that interest. – Octavia Butler

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The richness of the rain made me feel safe and protected; I have always considered the rain to be healing—a blanket—the comfort of a friend. – Douglas Coupland, Life After God, 1994

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If we listened to our intellect, wed never have a love affair. Wed never have a friendship. Wed never go into business, because wed be cynical. Well, thats nonsense. Youve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. – Ray Bradbury

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I was offered a choice of a flat salary up front or a percentage of the films future earnings. I took the up front money. Nobody could have figured what Halloween would ultimately become. – Donald Pleasence

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Future