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Quote by Walter Benjamin
The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing. – Walter Benjamin

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He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest. – Walter Benjamin

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Manners
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Walter Benjamin
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Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation. – Walter Benjamin

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Birth
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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion. – Walter Benjamin

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Art
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Other Quotes from
Beauty
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I am an unconventional beauty. I grew up in a high school where if you didnt have a nose job and money and if you werent thin, you werent cool, popular, beautiful. I was always told that I wasnt pretty enough to be on television. – Lea Michele

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Beauty

Its a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or Id be rotten to the core. – Phyllis Diller

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Beauty

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time. – Frank Norris

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Beauty

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference. – Aristotle

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Beauty

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I dont think humor is forced upon my universe its a part of it. – Manuel Puig

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So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and… Wanda Sykes and John Legend… were adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And thats the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship. – Henry Louis Gates

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Sometimes youre not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things Ive written that I thought were complete catastrophes when I finished with them that have gone on to generate some of my most positive feedback. – Len Wein

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By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses one misses more nonsense than sense. – Horace Walpole

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